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ITE. present volume is given to its readers with 

the old excuse of first-book adventurers — ‘ so- 
licitations of friends; not however without the 
hope that it may be found in some degree te 
justify their judgment, or palliate their partiality. 
During some ninetecn years, sitting alone or with 
company in the ‘sanctum’ of the Aiekerbocker 
Mugazine, or circulating in the society of a great 
metropolis, or sojourning at intervals in the coun- 
try, the writer has seen and heard much that has 
awakened mirth, and felt much that has clicited 
tears. Looking back now upon these records, 


many of them almost forgotten, the old emotions 


4 Woros PRELINIRALRS 


with which they were originally jotted down 
come back again freshly upon him. It has 
always been his belief, as it certainly 1s his 
experience, that any one man who fecls ad 
enjovs-— Who can neither resist laughter mer tor 
bid tears, that must out. and will have vent—1s 
In seme sert an epitome of the public. 

So thinking and so hoping, the writer las been 
induced to lay this, his first humble * venture, 
betore dius readers: relying more upon the ex- 
pressed judgment of others tn the matter, than 
upon tis own. * fam glad to hear’-— writes an 
American auther whose favorable estimate world 
reflect honor upon a fir worthier literary project 
than the present-—that vou are preparing one 
or two volumes for publication from vour + Tables 
You will perhaps remember that TL ouce spoke to 
vou upon tie subject, and advised vou te this 
course. I have often thought it a erear pity that 
the sallies of linmor, the entertaining incidents, 


os, whieh) ae Sm 


Worps Bie Was Paras, vo oO 


frequently to be met with ino your ‘Gossip,’ 
should be comparatively lost among the multi- 
tudinous leaves of a Magazine.’* indred sug- 
vestions have been received fron. similar tlatter- 
ing sources, and are at last acted upon, 


Of one thing at Jeast the reader of this volume 


may be assured—and that is, abundant variety. 
There are sad thoughts and glad thoughts record- 
ed in these pages; influenced by all seasons, and 
jotted down at all seasons; scenes and incidents 
in town and country, and all over the country ; 
familiar ‘home-views, ancedotes and ‘stories’ not 
a few; many and multifarious matters, in fine, 
original or communicated, that have made the 
writer laugh; and many, moreover, that have 
utoistened his eyes, as he wrote and read and 
re-read them; the whole forming a dish of desul- 
tory *Gossip,” in which it is hoped that every 
body may find something that shall please, and 


no one any thing to offend him, 


* Wasurscron Invine, 


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SU NGIelS ONE: 


A Revenrin of Boyhood and Political Eeonomy: A New Era among Cliris- 


AN 


tians: Execution of Ground-Mice: An Tour in Sing-Sing Prison — Mon- 
non Epwarps: Narcotic Intluenee—a ‘Recular Bu’st*: Grorrrey 
Crayos and * Old Kyte 7 in Sleepy Hollow — Hereditary Lightuing: A 
few thouchts on Death: Anecdote of Jarvis the Painter: A  Ghost- 
Story: Cool Reply to a Dunning-Letter: Children — Home Peeling in 
Old Age: A ‘Cute? Yankee Cloek-Pedler: Autumn in the Country, 
and its Influences: A Strange Horse-Adventure: An Inyolyed *Com- 
MIG CMU PVANSAGHGN 5 obo ss oars eat aslo Shcek pa he EE ee Ei eet ea 


NUMBER Al WO, 


Independent Stage-Coach Driver: The Retort Conelusive: The Sea and 
its Influences: The Deluded Dog and Refractory Lobster: Death of the 
First-boru:; An Affecting Incident: A Dry Pump: Experiment upon 
the Musical Organs of a Jack-Ass: The * Cloudless Skies? of Paradise: A 
Rail-Road + Recussant:’ A little Evening-Seene in the Sanetiin: Thimers 
of an Election — The Challenged * Friend’) The True Tero —an Au- 
thentie Anecdote: Natural History —the Flamingo: Puzzling Ques- 
tions in * Logie? Reminiscences in the litthe Chureh at Lake-George..., 


NUMBER THREE, 


Matrer-or-Pact Gvesr: Rain upon the Roof: A Mother's Grief: The 


tHhienes of 
il Neci= 


dent” —a Yankees Revenge: Sugeestion of a Loeormetive ona Wintry 


Mission of Little Children: Acephalons —a New Definition: In: 


the Creat Metropolis upon the quict Countryman: A+ Dies 


Night: A SGotell “Consolation” for a su 


peelings. Noeiye JEoetiah te 


eo The Yinikies. in Peps 


Ps. in, Manas. te"  Cnetomer— Peeourl 


Dh eene: Neat ef hexaie. Ene mv: ORedises tun 


7Old Mtieriny oof the Mohawk 5 The Femde Sane eler 


29 


THe Quaek-Des 


UOT ES te. 


VATE 
NUMBER POUR 


vor: NaroLras ated his Baities: Mal-Adrott ¢ caupeinit: 


1 


The Living-Dewl: Pursnit of Knowledae wader Ditvieniths : A Per- 


pearance: Story: Cort 


Of the Adobe 


Peri’s of a Tas 


tat Commen Things: A Hoe in Armes Pootrys 


aitie Anecdete of the Dake at Wrppisnies : 


nass: A Man’s Gwn Home: Insignia of * Metpreckety ” 


‘The Helpless * Help-Mate’: Sonneteering, with a Specimen: Renritis- 


cenees; Dea 


th ofa good Man. Ge 


NUMBER FEE. 


A Frescuman Diseonfited: An Agrecable Disappointment: Weather 


‘Complainants’: Geographical Disorders: * Pursniit of Nnowledee ne 


der Diitieulties*: Sporth 


The Cuteher 


1 


ra New Language: Death ji the Selol- 


Room: Conundram—* Porced Construction’: A Century the Past 
and Present: 


Book-Seler at Carmp-Meeting: True Vaine of Money —=* Note- Lifts 


A Dabious Dinner: Transposed * Case and Mteer’> a 


r Caught—an Anthentic Record: Seeing 4irscives 2s 


us; Janves and the Prenehman: Awtunmal Varewell te 


DQGRS VOR cake caunies ss shes Scab na anecrteseeahbansee eee pve deb 


NUMBER SIX, 


in Black: The Stabat Mater: Conundrums —s Prieticn| 


ute to Art Evauvorr and Instant Ap * Original: A Wes 


erend Jrenewy Dinnien: A Morning Locomotive in the Metrepalis: 


Am * nk 


Nir pissed | 


TeasorLal 


Comet: * What's the Law ?*—an Anerdote i ooucicass ko rakes eenanen 153 


Curtermss Grew 


Gent o 
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rianate: Memory’: Intluenzial Poetry: A Profane Swear 


A Twe-edged Compliment: A Man of the Worlts Ady tee: 


Den-Mot: A Musical Vantin Gow in Nature =a 


NUMBER SE VN: 
The Cross: A * Picture in Little’ of War: Kutt-Thiei- 
Obie: Thengbts of the Dead — Westy: *Searchine the 
w Now Keating: (A Pidinsopter “Ourmiiadts 7 ite 


ConTPESas, 9 


PAGE, 
NUMBER EIGHT. 

Ovr First Play = Country Theatricals: ‘Short of Bible’: Mayor TWarrer 
Cavght—a Temperance * Pledge? ; Wondertil Cures — O1ny * GAM 
Mon ?: Dr. Cox tina Box?: * Word Pietures? — LoxGrettow: The 
Mackinaw Sea-Serpent: ‘Destiny? Doubted: First Tnipressions of the 
Kaatskills: * Accident "-al Acquaintance: Am + American Citizen *: An 
Irregular * Revivalist "> Scenes ina City Hospital: Dubious Deference: 

AS Diteininn. * Done: Bad Bargains -»Wisibles Prcsenes of 
RYAN act aceon: Hasse Won aah a bre, £2 sige Haale SANG gee et acdc Rea Site Bualaeaioy We ae we ane OG: 


NGALBER. NEVE: 


A JokE in ‘Full Blossom’: A ‘Rough Guess’: Comparative Longevity : 
Scene at Sing-Sing State Prison: The Art of Mowing — Envy of City 
‘Artists’: A ‘Short-Sighted* Landlord: Mock-Auctions: ‘Original 
Picture -Dealers: An Amateur-Fisherman: Crabs, and their Ways: A 
‘Contingent Remainder’: The ‘Last Bitter Tour’: Irish ‘Cousins’: 

FAN @ATOUO) AE iThere “Cbs ereiso At PRACT. snk. asim aes aise sha ene ON 


NWEMBEA EN: 


Fitrun Forcbodings — Our First Baby: Rochester Jail —a * Visible Sup- 
port’: Our *Qrarter? toaPoer cy Yunkve’s * Bye to Trade”; Aeero 
Eloquence: *‘Swaying’ Young Trees—hearing ‘Something Drop’: 
‘Joun Switi” in a Quandary; ‘Doe's’? in Spring-Time: A * Flat- 
footed” Simile: Murder Considered as * Murder’: Of Turtles and their 
‘Abuses’: A Dying Wite to her Wusband: Trish Shrewdness: An 
Trish Blunder: The * Morality’ vf Decent Dress — Artistic Sinuggling, 217 


SU MEIN JEL VEN: 


Criseine to Life: Insoluble Problems: Premonitions of a Consuniptive t 
Sunshine of the Grave: Death of Hon, Sinas TWiaorss: California Pil- 
primes A Latta ar: Sauceestive Epitaylicy Te ofiners Lite” of 
Man: A+*New'-Mileh* Cow: A voice from the Nursery 2 A Condens- 
ing Conversationist: Dow among the Tombs: AO City Snow-Scene: 


Large * Understanding’: Winter in the Country: Some Thonezlts on 


RE RAS PGR Bee Ahh 4 Ae 


Rerivemest Of Tiywienee: Coming-on of Spring: What is Going on 
‘Now? As Dumb Orater*: The Optamental Semipstross + Life's *Com- 


pensition “> Monitors * Merseles > Lines by ‘Tice Nwivew > he Migs 


10 oe See Were: 


PAGE. 
tery of Srrivg: A Locomevive Atiagostst: J 
Ronpiienit A *Patihai-lp*. Sereno: 
Yankee “Ontenas io Wallstreet? A Doce 


Diatioss Exicer: *(id Rewer’ Prodicthenr warring “th aye ¢ 


Puneta-Tiwes of the dadians, ....<%. phsdixay p dieted he tenes 085. 


NUMBEE "CHOC EN, 


Tie Inowiate —a Warning: An Ornament & igs Anosiete if Tine 


ture; Dore-Ranners and tibosts: A * Dread 
ful Seanad’ ip Verse: “The ‘Poor Rich Man’: DuneaAnn om Tehargi? 


hée Pound > =-Strier (onsiies 


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WOMBER POURTERN. 

A Revresiy Wash-Tod: A 
Toppers Bpeciagies: Re 

Miliary THlemine: Marimonial Indif oo. p : 

*Timny Men’: A Mopef:l Son: Anewicts of Warrmrimia; Ta—iaae 

lows: The Vork-"Ouse Biss &. Parody: Ocnaroe’s Iopist 


Anwodore oF ¥ Srewasr: A ‘Dore’ 10 tes Pillory. oes wee 


OperisG of an Ancient Veeul Retections: An Koe-Perenader! dn Aadior 
*Cinapencesl * 


tiles ip * Getth ‘ ; 
A Set Depaadént Phtins _ ty rv j vetnel 
iia tor a Bust: Phe Metropolitan Stone-Giacne: The Ghiietiam Wawe 


fhe, .. .. yee ge oars : bet ive va ; ; » ate 


A Worp at Panciwe. pe oe oie ’ noe 


Goisig about Children, 


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GOSSIP ABOUT CHILDREN. 


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ET us begin at the beginning. ‘The child is father of 
i the man;’ and by permitting us to commence with 
the following letter to a brother-editor, written in the first 
person singular—a thing in itself very ‘simeular’ in the 
present book—the reader will have at once before him 
the longest paper he will be called upon to encounter ‘from 


title-page to colophon,’ 


My pear Frrexp: 

Trove children. [used to think when I was a bachelor, 
(it is a good many years ago now,) that there was some- 
thing rather presuming in the manner in which doating 
fathers and mothers would bring their ‘wee things’ around 


them, and, for the especial edification of us single tellows, 


ca (assiP. ADOT? Ow De 


canse them to Smisspeak dalt-uttered: words. and te eo 


thronel with divers Tittle lessons in nininers cmd eloeution, 


But both parents and children were qoade se apparently 
happy by it. that TD never could think, as certsdn ot my ir 
reverent compations were wont to thoik, and to say, tha 
it was *a bore? No, T never thoucht. or stud that: but 
L 7 think, TD remember, as | have satd. that there was a 
little bad taste, and net a little presumption in sneha 


Course, 

I dont think se now. 

When aftather—and how much wore a iether — sees 
for the first time the glean of adlection ilminine, with 
what the Gennwans enll an * interior leht the eyes uted 
features of his intant child: when that tinocent souk fresh 


from heaven, fooks tor the tirst time inte wours, and way 


feel that vours Is an answering look to that new-born intel 
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ligetice — then. Dsav, will vou experience a sensation: which 


is net ‘of the earth earthy, but belongs to the * corm 
spondences’ of a higher and Toler sphere, 


To wish to gossip a lithe with wou concerning claliren. 


Mot woe “a ofol-erowid man mow, tr euehet aah seri 


Were XM ot bon and | cul cute a rain thet eee Wil 


(eal inierested wnoca few ineidents which | 


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Don’t you think that we parents, sometimes, in mo- 
ments of annoyance, through pressure of business or other 
circumstances, forbid that which was but innocent and 
reasonable, uid perfectly natural to be Usiceriedares~ Natal 
do not the best Gf parents frequently multiply prohibiuens 
uneil obedienee to them beeontes Inipossible d 

Exeuse me; but all your readers have been children ; 
many of them are happy mothers; many more that are 
not will be in Gov's good time; and [ cannot but believe 
that many who shall peruse these sentences will find some- 
thing mn them which they will remember hereafter. 

‘The sorrows and tears of youth, says Wasnurcron 
Irvine, ‘ure as bitter as those of ages’ and he is right. 


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They are sooner washed away, it is true; but oh! how 
keen is the present sensibility — how acute the pussing 
mental avony - 

My twin-brother Wirrrs — may his ashes repose in 
peace in his early, his untimely grave !— and myself, 
when we were very litthe boys in the country, saw, one 
bricht June div, tar up in the blue ay paper-kite, 


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swaviie to and fro, rising aml sinking, divine and Ne tects 
inv and flashing back the sunlight ina manner that was 
wonderful to behold. We left our little tin vessels in the 
meadow where we were picking strawberries, and ran into a 
neighboring field fo eet beneath it: and. keepine sar res 


ris Ty Paaitae eee mga Meda ane, yLeEistor toi Heyer wa 


16 GCHesiD Ao rro Cait pEeES 


presently tound ourselves hy the side of the areliteet 6 
thett miteniticent creation, and saw the line whieh eld. rt 
reaehing Inte the skies and Tittle white paper desscnaers 
eliding upward upon it as if te hold commituden with: the 
eracetul ‘bird of the air? at the Upper ened. 

Lam describing this to vou as a boy, cal EP wish you 
to think of it as a hoy, 

Well, many days atterward, aud after variotis Wnstte- 
cesstul attempts, which not a little discomifited us —- for we 
thought we had obtained the ‘principle? of the hte we 
succeeded in making ove which we theteht world ty. 
The ir was too still, however, for several days: and 
never did a becahned navigator wait more tinpationtty tor 
a breeze to speed his vessel on her voyage than did we for 
a wind that should send our paper iessenger, bedizened 
with stirs of red and vellow paper, dancing up the sky. 

At last it pleased the ‘gentle and voluble spirit of the 
wr’ ote fiver us, A cmild south wind sprang up, and so 
deftly didl we tanage our *inventions that it was presentiy 
reduced to a mere miiniature-kite dn the blae ether above 
us. Svehla trinmph?  Povrosx, when he essaved dis tirst 
experunent, teli ne more esultant than did we whem tliat 


en 


great event was tehiewl > We kept it wp aul *iwist 


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the oooamme ame t ark. We Wwe rey 1 ms ' 


deposited ioindthe barn: hesitatiwge lone where te rds, 


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ottoof several localities that secamed sate aned eltathbe, but 


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finally deciding to stand it end-wise in a barrel, in an un- 
frequented corner of the barn, 


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I am coming new to a specimen of the ‘sorrows and 
tears of youth,’ of which Grorrrey Crayon speaks. We 
dreamed of that kite in the meght; and, far up in the hea- 
ven of our sleeping vision, we saw it flashing in the sun 
and gleaming opaquely in the twilight air. In the morn- 
ing, we repaired betimes to the barn: approached the 
barrel with eagerness, as if it were possible for the kite to 
have taken the wings of the evening and flown away ; 
and, on looking down into the receptacle, saw our cherished, 
our beloved kite broken into twenty pieces | 

It was our man Tomas who did it, clinbing upon the 
hay-mow. 

Tt was many years afterward before we forgot the cruel 
neighbor who laughed at us for our deep six months’ sor- 
row at that great loss; a loss in comparison with which 
the Joss of a fortune at the period of manhood sinks into 
Insigniticance, Other kites, indeed, we constructed ; but 
that was the kite ‘you read of? at this present. 


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Think, therefore, O ye parents! always think of the 
acuteness of a child’s sense of childish grief. 

I once saw an clder brother, the son of a metropolitan 
netehbor, a romping, rovstering blade, in the merest *devil- 


ment. eut off the foot of a ditthe doll with which das in- 


furtine sister was amusing herself. A mutilation of living 


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flesh and blood, of bone and sinew. ina beloved plavimate, 
could scarcely hive atfeeted the poor cldid tere prmtally, 
It was to her the vital current of a heantitul babe which 
oozed from the Draticlew of that stufled effiew of an intant 3 
eud the mental suflerings of the child were based upon the 
innecent faith which it held, that all thines were really 
Wlhisti they seemed, 

Grown people should have more faith in, and more 
upprectation of, the statements and fechnes ot children, 
When L read, some months since, ia telegraplie dispatch 
to one of our morting journals, from Baltimore, if | rerici- 
ber nightiv, of a mother who, in punishing a lithe: boy for 
telline a Tie, (which, after all, at subsequently trausypares) 
that he did wef telly dat him with a sholit switel over Tis 
temple and killed lim instantly —a mere qeenent, af 
course, but vet a dreadful casualiy, which drove rousen 
from the throne of the unhappy mother —wher Trend this, 
Ptheusht of what fael oeenrred in my own sanetina ends 


Secale too efits: and the } 


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lesson Which DT reeeivesd was 
a ceo one, and Will remiaim with me forever, 


Mer Vithe> ber. a dark-eved, erento, srw) Tecate 


ne] peerlraps Fossa 
who ought aot tos I l do Say hist - Liveing 
AT tb HW od ime avhich tor q Veep 
| iid, on my pein: that on ne PONcMpINe i re 


err ah for it, £ charged ey in the 


luration, with es eae and mista or 


% iff ° is you =a Si Sie Hoe Ket T shall remem- 


ey + tine, | 
e now to narrate to vou a circumstance 
din the fanily of a friend and correspond 


in Lae city of Bes some ten yes ago. the 


er ho has any sympathy with, or aliee- 


Ailsoen i “Phat at ad meets trie, you may 


tT I. Bb atoste—) ediieli Ayuotitees ad kee abe om 


Y was convinced: of this when T ee ne 


20) (Reset. eo wo BT eee 


the detail of the event which was subsequently furnished 
mie, 

A few weeks betore he wrote, he biel buried dus eldest 
sen, mt fine, vans little fellow. of seme emht vears of age, 
whe had never, die said, known a day's illness until that 
which finally removed Tim henee to Te here ne more, 
His death occurred under circumstances which were pecn- 
liarly podnful to his parents. A vounger brother a deli 
eate, sickly child fromm its Tirth, the next im age te tam, 


had been dewn for early a fortmeht with an epidemic 
fever, Tn consequence of the mature of the disense. every 
preeaution diwl been adepted that prodence sugeested te 
quired the other metnbers of the family qasunst i But of 
this one, the father’s eldest, he said tre liad’ little ths fear, se 
ruseed was he, amd so wenendls health. Sill Tamra: 
he kept avigiint eve upon him, and especidiv forbade bis 
going Inte the pools and docks tear bis scleool which i 
wre lis custom semetimes to visitt for he was 4uf a bow, 
and ‘bays ved? be boys” and we ought anore treqnettiy 
to thik thata is them vulture te- be. OF all aiid 


ht b ha aS Prd t é, a 
things, a reproach almost to chudish frankness aed inno 


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HB i ne Sa 1 ay oni Temes aaa l 
if ya - iy i | Pert VRS Sidi j 
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PTAs YE we Sisii es DS TEAL Ry Rea ead 
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crcl pencerect bir Peary stisce@atiie to Lhe ail os 


1 of mind, his wife entered the apartment, ent 
yl i 

> has. just come in, and he is a perfect fright! 

| from head to foot with dock-mnud, and is as 


he? “liked the father, sternly. | ; 
rering over the kitchon-fire, UWeowas afraid 
re, When the girl told him yeu had eome aaa 


to tell him to come here this instant!’ was 
to this information. 


him ne with: e insane sabes eee 
serail awaited him in the morning, as the C 
offence; and, in a harsh voice, concluded 


go to your bed? re 
r? said the little fellow, ‘I want to tell cae 


ord, Sirs go to bed L 
ranted to say, father, that ——’ 


emptory stamp, an imperative wave of lis 


the door, anda frown upon his brow, did— 
ithout other specch, again close the door oh = 


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When hits by listed Seca SUppertess atid sil to huis hed, 
the futher sat restless and uneasy while supper was bem 
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prepared > amd, at tea-table, ate but litt 


| i Ses Aree sting: 


the real cause. or the additional cause of his emotion, snd 
interposed the remimrk ; 

*Lthink. my dear, vou ought at least to have heard 
What Hexny had to sav. My heart ached for lim when 
he turned away, with das eyes full of tears, TDpsiey isa 
wood boy, atter all at ve does sometimes do wrone, THe ts 
a tender-hearted, atlectionate boy. Tle always was. 

And therewithal the water stood im the eves of tic 
forgiving inetherseven as it stood in the eves at Miasey, itt 


‘the honse of the Interpreter, as recomled by Ln sy ay, 


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MS EVES Papal WAS UNUCRT COPY pay ae 


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Wik Te mews atid WOME OF anberest hr (yal eee a key 


jonmial ot that evening. Tle sat for some tine in tn evi 
dentiv painful reverie, aud then rese smd repaived to das 
bed-chounber, As he passed the bed-rooam when tis Hirk 
boy slept. hie thonenht le werd look in ampen hin hefone 
retiring terest. Ele ereph to lis low eor amd bewr aver 


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down the day's. dicedsainl 


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sad 


rested wien dit lat he was. sleanme cabaly aml sweety 


GaGSSaIe ASTRON Ge HET nie 25 


to make amends to the boy’s aggrieved spirit in the morn- 
ing for the manner im which he had repelled all explana- 
tion of lis offence. 

But that morning never came to the poor child in 
health. Tle awoke the next morning with a raging fever 
on his brain, and wild with delirium. Tn forty-eight hours 
le was in his shroud. We knew neither lis father nor lis 
mother, when they were first called to his bed-side, nor at 
any moment afterward. Waiting, watching for one token 
of recognition, hour after hour, in speechless agony, did 
that unhappy father bend over the couch of his dying son. 
Once, indeed, he thought he saw a smile of recognition 
light up lis dying eve, and he leaned eagerly forward, for 
he would have given worlds to lave whispered one kind 
word in his ear, and have been answered ; but that gleam 
of apprrent intelligence passed quickly away, and was suc- 
ceeded by the cold, unmeaning elare, and the wild tossing 
of the fevered limbs, which Tasted until death came to his 
relief, 

Two days afterward, the undertaker came with the 
little coffin, and his son, a play-mate of the deceased boy, 
bringing the low stools on which it was to stand in the 
entry-hill, 

‘Twas with TWisxey, said the lad, ‘when he e@ot mito 


the water. We were playing down at the Long Wharf, 


Hexry,and Frask Mevrorp, and Ty and the tide was out 


24 Gores i ee one prt Maes 


very low: and there was a beam run out from the wharf; 
and Ciances vot out on it to wet a fish-line amd hook that 
hung over where the water was deep: and the first thing 
weosaw, lie hid slipped off and was strugeling in the 
water! TTexny threw off dis cap and jumped clear trom 
the wharf into the water, and, after a great deal of hard 
werk, got Crartes out; and they waded up through the 
mind to where the wharf was net so wet and slippery: and 
then Ehelped them to climb up the side, Citanies told 
ITexny not to say any thing about it, for af he did, dis 
father would never let him geo near the water again. 
Hiesiky was very sorry; and, all the way going home, he 
kept saving t 

‘What will father say when he sees me to-meht/ | 
Wish we liad wot @one to the wharf 2? 

‘Pear brave boy! exclaimed the bereaved father: 
Sand (his was the exp lamgition Which T so erue lly reflsed to 
hear!’ And het and bitter tears rolled dow his cheeks. 

Yes! that stern father now learned. and for the first 
time, that what he had treated with unwonted severity as 
a fault, was but the imprise of a generous mature. which, 
forvetful of self had hhazarded life for another. Tt was Tait 
the quick prompting of that manly sparit which he Taimself 
hit always endeavored to eratt upon lis stisceptible mind, 
ad which, vetng as 


an mor than ome ae STON, 


~Gossir asovr Onitpren. Q5 


close this story in the very words of that fi 

. the lesson sink deep into the hearts of every 

» shall peruse this sketch : 

thing that [now see, that ever Geert to 

sme of my lost boy. Yesterday, E found some 

sketches which it was lus delight to make for 7 
Lot his *. brother. To-day, in rum- oe 

On éluset, T came across his boots, still covered ny 

Ne as when he as wore them. Rae may . 


a 
th 


er exp ression i the bee boy's s face than that 


one with which he turned from me on the 
repulsed him... . Then my heart bleeds 


careful should we all be, that in our daily 
' aus) those little beings sent us by a kind 
stats not laying up for ourselyes the sourees 


a future bitter tear!) Tow cautious that, neither 


Pa + 


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eyertenrent, we be ded to qamete out to the veniel errors of 
the heart the punishment dieconly te wailfal crime! 
f Alas | 


perhaps few paretits suspect how often the 
fierce rebuke, the sudden blow. is answered in ther elial- 
dren by the tears, uot of passton, net of ploysies] or mental 
pelt. in 2 


ut ofa loving vet erieved or outrawed mature 2 
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relative Incident to an experience so touching, 


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SUM BER ONE. 


& LRENERTE GY BoOYTooD AND POLITICAL ECUNOMY ¢ A NEW ERA AMONG@ 
CONDE TERT aon. TROD OOS OU” GING ND Saris “f AN ONES. IN) (SEN GESES G 
PRISON —MONRON EDWARDS? NARCOTIC INFLUENCE —A ‘REGULAR BUST’! 
GROVEREY CRAYON AND SOLD KNICK’? IN SLEEPY HoLLow — HEREDITARY 
LIGHISTSG & A PEA TWiDWGGHTS GN DEAD: ANECDOTE “Oh cAINIS “NIB 
TEN ED hes” (oy WE LOR reed > ORK, SP A). Ao ENE Se ete, 0k 
BPREN HOME PENEING IN OLD AGH A *CETH’ YANKEE CLOCK=PEVELER: 
ANODE odew. SE tine. AI DRS PNEL CRN OBSS. (A Sree: | MOPS he 
ADVE AG INTIS ED COMMERCIAL TRANSAT,” 


Bate there comes a warm autumnal rainy day, it 


ott es tS Pea enjoyment to FO OF EF (omnes solits) ti) 


[otoken, and repair to a eable-angle of the Swiss chalet, 


LY the tasteful Sruvens aud there, under aa open 


wether-Lourd” caiopr, wize for horrs upon the distant 


City. shremiline before us lice a map. sud onr noble harkor 


wit bas, covercd with: tall ships, their tapering masts cond 


Ms AN Oy eae roepatt. wait! 
COPA BE penesca sy AP Cre Ce Wa ke 


Si Ao Re fire meer Is -o aa 


Heh that steals through a broken cloud. There we wateh 
the rain sift in lone slanting lines across the bay. and over 
the town, and alone the majestic Hudson, and think ‘on 
diverse things foredone’ when we were as yet but a little 
hoy; especially of early days in the country, when with 
departed “OULD.” Wweusead: TG perch oursel yes Upon the 
top of a fresh hay - * barrack,’ (soft and fragrant couch 1) 
and fromundernenth its straw-thateh roof look out throweh 
the gently-falling rain upon the fadine vellow woods, the 
meadows of dim dying wreen, amd rasset stubble-fields, 
That remembrance links with others of the country. uutil 
it merges ina sort of mental essayvoon Palitieal Reonomy, 
One thinks of the reapers cutting the ewolden erat toot 
min and bow rolling the round fat Smurphies” ont of the 
black loamy soil: of gathering in the vellow-creen oats, se 
smooth, and so pleasant to fcuty rake and Tind  of the 
Liliputian forests of tall silky Hlax-sterus ) of the yellow-corn, 
so deliehtful to diusk at night, with a barn-tloor full of 
girls and boys, waiting joyfully amidst the sweet *hneky? 
odors for the subsidenes of the Die * heap? that they 
may partake of the repast of pies and cakes amb sweet 
@ider that is spread tin the house” ATL these varies 
ht the vessels which vou see 


Tnhors *im vue season’ fre} 


tending to tlie vast metry molis t sone in the 


some hidaled whose together some while sepuri, Tat al 


making tor one port, while there, in thie arent tow before 


cate Now ein En pore? Sit, 


and *prentice-boys in dingy shirt-sleeves, at 
en the farmers, their ‘patrons, are in bed, ‘ply 
tools of trade; eabinet-makers are sending off 
re; druggists are arming country practitioners with 
nes of destruction? against the ‘great enemy? — or | 
is; hardware dealers are sending out pots, | r 
id pans, for ‘stewing, baking and boiling’ in fur | 
wilds — and so forth; which, in connection with 


1e-gun, putty, ‘ging-shang’ root, codfish, hops, 
s-wax, soft-shell almonds, gun-powder, osnaburss, 5S 


sa pleasant thing to read, in a late number of 
aun oe Journal, an account of four clerey- 
idely different denominations, meeting weekly 
“s houses, in®a New-Eneland village, for 
s communion and prayer. The liberal Christian 
prompted this act did not exist formerly in : 
ner indeed any section, of the Uuion: and py 
“Other sheep. 


32 PS kovrrose oF TPRoW ops Poe 


haves saadd our Saynoon. whieh wre notaf thes folls theta 
iso Tonaist bring, and they shall hear my votees and there 
shall be one fold and one shepherd. . Whiv should they, 
Whe profess to lead and) point the way ta Teaven, dwell 
Wpotamere dilferences of doetrine, which touch neither the 
heartner the Tie? Let them rather say. looking up toa 


ty z . 
COTRTRON Ivep ERM ER ¢ 


‘O Crrenmrin! ave shire thy eress, 
Thy passion too sustains 
We sie Tiry death to live Tiry life, 


And rise with Tren aeauin. 


I. Loatmen) aye, WATHENCE NCE oF Boyhood With. ut positive 
treat. Weill do we remember the * dtecewtion af the 
Growiedl- Mier? as performed by *OuLapob* ail the writer 
herect, when we were ‘wee things” The prisoners were 
eauelt inthe act of theft, woeder a *shoek* of enteeori, 
after an deetiectuad attempt at escape, and were confined im 
a sqiiare state prison, *digeed 7 the enrd’ of the meadow, 


Wie stent dart [tle the first aitich 


oF their eGift iret p ame 


jheom. as Giant Despane talked witl 


w) floreret. shut up in Doeabting-Castle. Tn te mien 


a ia * “a ie 
inf] *aeraniiaiioned’ Shen wa wil asamp Pate 


rAGL OSs Ouis Weis ire eS tr alk weet, ery I ShOane, a 


could have done, We contiiaed to visit them for severd! 
days afterward ¢ and their bearing evineing no penitence, 
they were condemmed to be tune, and a day was ppotited 
for dhemexecution, We had seen a model of a oallows on 
the cover of the “Story or Astprose Gwiskin aml +e 
EAbOn * Cobstractal a very seer sinstitution’ of that 
kind: aud when the fatal morning arrived. with ail due 
privacy the culprits were browght forth, the thread of 
death which was to clip the thread of their dives being 
round their necks, They were addressed in moving terms 
by Onravop, and assured that all hope of reprieve was 
ridiculous; it could not be thought of by the ‘authorities’ 
for aamoment. ‘They must prepare to mount the seat? 
fold” They walked,‘ supported? partly ly the ‘rope? 
around their necks, with firm hind-lees, up the Indder, and 


a 
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the ‘fatal cord *? was adjusted to the transverse beam. Tt 
was admement to be remembered. At a signal given Ins 
the jottersdown hereof, the trap-door fell, and they were 
launched inte — liberty! For the thread broke. aml the 


‘wretched culprits? were soon safe in the long erass of the 


meadow. Tt was a marrow eseape for “em | 


1 
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We passed an hour in the Sing-Sing State-Prison te 
other daw: and while regarding with irresistible svmpatliv 
the wretched immates, we could not help thinking how 


)* 


3 A -SCEese- rt PILE Sie Ms eho, 


little, after allo of the actual suffering of imprisonment is 
apparent to the visitor, The ceaseless toil, the comrse fire, 
the solemn silence, the averted look, the yellow-white palor, 
of the convict: lus narrow cell, with its scanty furniture, 
his hard couch: these mdeed are ‘visible to the naked eve. 
Yet do but think of the demon TuHougirr that must * eat 
up his heart* during the long and inconceivably dismal 
hours which he passes there in darkness, ino silence, and 
alone! Think of the tortures he must endure trom the 
ravages of that pleasantest friend but most terrible enemy, 
Imagination! Oh, the height. the depth, the leneth and 
breadth, of a sensitive captive’s sorrow! As we came 
away from the gloomy scene, we prtssed on on till within 
the domain of the guard, the Prison Potter’s-Field. where 
he, undistinguished by head-stone er any other mark, the 
hones of those who had littl else to lay there, when their 
lite of suffering was ended. There sleeps Miox tortie. iiime 
Warps, Whose downward fate we had marked in saceessive 
years. 

We first saw fim when on lis trial: a tidlsomte, 
Well-dressed, black-wlhiskered. seqaeaiy seltepossessed: person, 
With the thin varnish ef a @entlemman, and ga cfrotters 
that nothing econld daunt. Ae@sin wesaw dam. wate bala 
Ine court with eourtezaus at the door of Lis celioai * Phe 
Tonths,’ the dav before he left tor StaeSing + cheb im Tis 


Morning-cown, with daxirious whiskers, tte! the qasimers 


INGE ONO It Goal Sele ie ene aD 


of a pseudo-prince receiving the honors of shaun-subjects. 
The next time we saw him he was clad in eoursest: ‘ telou- 
stripe tis head was sheared to the skull; his whiskers 
were no more; a dark frown was on his brow ; his cheeks 
were pale, and his ips were compressed with an expression 
of remorse, rage and despair. Never shall we forget that 
look) He had a litthe while before been endeavoring to 
escape, and had been punished by titty lashes with a cat-o'- 
nine-tails; four hundred and fitty stripes on the naked 
back ! 

Once again we saw him, after the lapse of many 
months. Time and suflering had done their work upon 
him. His once-erect frame was bowed y lis head was quite 
bald at the top, and iis scanty borderimeg-hair had become 
gray. Aud thus he gradually declined to his melancholy 
‘west of lite’ until he reached his last hour; dying in an 


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agony of terror, gnawing his emaciated fingers, to con- 
vince himself that he was still Jiving; that the appalling 
change from hfe to death had not vet actually taken place: 
And now he sleeps in a felon’s grave, with no record of 
is isune or fate. Is not the way of the trausgressor 


Salutes 


*Trus pipes my pillar of clouds, 
Such meteors T love to utter : 

More than Welst-rien do cheese, 

Oran Enelish-mian case. 


Or a Dutehmem loves sett butver, 


ob Ghote Rey UG Ree. Oe: 


Tn this trary weed, 


And honer cnoagi ina taper! 


We are reminded by these quaint stanzas. from +The 
Christmas Ordmary’ of a circumstance tentione! fe is 


by an old bank-notary of this town, [Phe says that die has 


seldom presented 2 onoetiee of protest, te a large Anpotnt, 


Wherein he did not tind the delinquent SINGS. a x4 


The bankrupt had made up his mind to the dread alternaiive 
of tiuling. and tis chief solace was thie fines of Pan har 


cotie weed, iti on it pluloseplic rit Was. the whis Fi, CP Poe 


presented hun with the protest of a note for twenty Mirat 


sand dollars, with the salvp, that ‘le presumed it was a 


inistuke, or an oversight! replied, ‘Oh, nor mo imistal 


Its areolar bust! 


‘Yor murky cloud is foul with rain? that toa ay Pea 


‘ . , : ; 
TIONL We See rolling SOW iy cep tie hi ply wer eas 


Sleepy-Hellow, on the other side of the river, Pven whale 


Wwe ayateh it, it bexins to shake iis skirts, auth te Sy Swea 


im “the fating landscape iis superling df sai” 


Looking at this, we cannot choose but think «? a deny 


1 
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rable exenrsion whieh the wrier heres! ons wedge wy 


Gaorreery Craror throneh the wien Teoon af Sie 


AUS a Oitains ake so Once Se 


[fdlow. a neiehborhood which dis own pen had made 
Wordewide fanous, The qaorning had been thunderous 
aud showery y nor did it entirely brighten up until the re- 
Inova of the dirt champagne-cork at the hospitable table 
ef * Sunnyside 2 always a precursor, as the host remarked, 
of spledsant weather about this time. After dinner, pre- 
ceded by the Tudies of the drousehold and another otest 


4 


in the fantily-curriage, Mr. Cravos, ina dight open wagon, 


‘tooled? the * Oil Katek? over the high easter lills that 
enclose the sheltered valley where in them day Eyed aad 


Heiss olin Aes Ase eyes tail hs. aonaans: 


i] 


daughter Karrise, The sun came out between the poart- 


colored opaque clouds; the Iirds beown to stag iu the 


i 
treest at bobolink was ‘rising aud sinkine om oa lene 


! 


fhiunting weed? ian adjoining Helly and every thine in 
manure was bright ane snuline. Now it came to paisa, trow= 
eit. that when, beguiltae the way with mach remensdcr- 
able converse, we came to the brow of the Jast fall tlre 
overlooks the turn of the road into the valley, one of the 


atm sated oprque clouds, at first ho bieeer then a ran: 


hated, but whieh bad beew gradually Sentherinw tatiess, 


al 


suddenly darkened, amd presently ‘opens woon as y alse 


ar pet 
Veltuin 


Uae 


there were thunderines and 


ae anil LAP a a pal sinh y 
itl we Tithe, esse siheir Jelames of wveeneaind baiilcdl 


Wii stom. Morvrover the rary now descend 


facet Debenntile 2 


insomuch that Mr Chavos wheeled suddenly inte an anale 


ao GRO Pew ina et en EK Sie 


of a rail-fence that skirted an umbraveeus grove, dis- 
mowited, chumbered over, and took shelter under an ied} 
cent tree, holding over dis head meanwhile the cushioned 
Wagon-sent, down which, as from a spout. the rain poured 
trem his back. * Why dowt you eome wider here. and be 
comfortably housed, as 2 am? asked the Sleep Tollow 
historian, with amusing mock gravity: + Whereto thus 
then? *Old Koarce 2 * Dare a’t do it, dear Sir: “fraid of the 
Hightning, now plaving about us; had a near relation 
onee struck with the ‘electric fluid? (the kind always men- 
tioned by country newspapers as the most fatal) while 
standing under a tree, came near dying —but didi’t! 
‘Oh? anewered Mr, Cravox, * that alters thewicey Aes 
goqx eon tha firiilay ely 2 
Well, well; the idea of lightning ‘running ta a fun 
the edd appearance of the speaker, with tis in- 
verted leathern cushion on das head, under which Tie 
Jooked Tike a Reman beneath diis tortoise-shell shicidl: 
the after exeursion through the valley, with all that we 
saw ane leard hy the Wit 4 the Hp pearance ch a. ate 


rated wuest about the hearth of ‘Sunnvstde’? tied ele. 


} 
! 


Cad ju-roomy habihments of the host: ad} these meaning 
recollections tive arisen in about the space of se adie 


‘Corous’ and verv pleasant are the tatters torded 


the thousand cells of memory! 


AGGIE DS AO A DE ae a, 39 


‘Thoughts on Death’ are well intended, but they do 
not contain any thing very original. ‘This is the ouly sub- 
ject upon which every body speaks and writes without a 
possibility of having experienced what they undertake to 
diseuss. Certainly it is an awful moment when the last 
flutter expires on the lips; when the incomprehensible soul 
solves the solemn secrets of nature, and blends the past, 
the present and the future together. ‘Tf death, says an 
old author, ‘puts an end to the enjoyment of some, it ter- 
minates the sufferings of all. [care not what becomes of 
this frail bark of my flesh, so I but save the passenger, 
When gray hairs besnow the brow, and grayer thoughts the 
heart, how many there are, as they lay their heads night- 
Jy upon their pillows, who could wish that the slumbers 
which fall around their heads were the forerunners of that 
sleep which shall restore their borrowed powers to their 
original non-existence! They have come to consider life 
as but 2 momentary convulsion between two tranquil eter- 
nities; an avenue to death, as death is the gate that opens 
to a new and enduring life. ‘Ever close by the gate of 
the tomb,’ savs the thoughtful Tecrensprécsu, ‘1 look 
upon the hostile armaments and pains and penalties of 
tyrannous life, placidly enough, and listen to its loudest 
threatenings with a still smile? The world is a prison, out 
of which many are daily selected for execution + 

--—— S PrAvinunon mist come 


To all; hot tears shel miecerate 


Who does not sometimes *think on these thie 7 
Who does net, in dis thoughtful ours, at summer even 
1 
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tide, when the sreat sun lias gone dewn the lowe west, 


or in the still wieht-watehes, or on awakening ta the serene 


morning, call to mind the solemm truth, that *we moet of 


lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover wm. 2° 
But ‘the shortest life is Jone enough if it lead te a beter, 


and the Jonwest life is too short if it do nete 


fehciensly handled. ‘*Speakine of portraitsy there a fi 
very wood story told of Jarvis, the painter, which we 


tink will be new to many of ony readers. ~Whew Fie 


bacchanalian propensities had rendered lim other gn 
j , 3 ¢ ) are 
nneenal Wf vol an unsafo artist..he was etinpioved Hew 
ventlemun in a Southern city to pamt bis Wile, a Maire 
} ] ’ 1 , 
of piainess, wider ihe stumulation th + DSc pe ae 
a singh sitting, miuet be the extent ef his pole 
JARVIS Aasentis \ mnie Mm cue i 1 i me th Tere 


SAAN CTEM GUM Beis Wats i Onn 11 


seemed sappotuted. Tt was foo literal a trauseript of the 
onvinal, ‘Couldn't vou have eiven ity said lie to the 


that is, couldivt vou give it 


painter, ‘a d¢ffle less 
wom 2x littl: more ——. ‘Tf veu expect me interposed 
Paivis, seetne the husband's drift atonce, Sif vou expect 
mie te qaiitke i handsome portrait of vour wits, [aust 
have more than apearé of wine at a sitting! I] couldn't 
eet Up inavination enough to make her even good-look- 


Ine, under «@ quart at the very least" The eentleman 


‘left the presence,” 


We are not, as a general fact, a believer in ghosts; but 
the tollowing etreumstances will, we think, stagger the 
inercdulous reader, as we confess it staggered us. The 
relator, when a boy, lived in the country, Wile some- 
where tn Tis curly “teens, he was scent, bv dis inther, ona 
dint halfmeci-hiny, Nevember evening, to accempany a 
voung ool die daughter cfa distaut nerehler, 
fone. Ne road tn ebe place led aloug the side af a 


as | eee he t aan a ; 
Riis Mees ARC ECL eh PRCA Bot Seb ee 


MEA TALS CS Le Cipeiie ho Th ee lets oe 


hone — Phe wie at toive Tl bait die heart. Beat think wea 


fist when lites joer 23 Wuss sHcder ly arreskee bg a 
La 0 proceedine trot tie * ale Tee mers ae Ph ies 


Joqponed as 


42 & OnostT Brower. 

first thought was to run; the mext, that lis father’s old 
nesroanin “ake who was up to al sorts off practicul 
Jokes, had wot into the erave-yard, on purpose to frighten 
him. as he came along back. This idea put hie upon his 
mettle. Ife picked up three or four t rocks? as they say 
at the Southo and claubered up oon the wall. Looking 
down upon the field of irregular tombstones, some rising 
lich in the faint moouheht, and others shrinking away in 
shadow, he called out: “ You can’t come at J aket 7 


know you! And if vou do that again, UI tix veur Taek 
et 


flint for you! T’ve got sume stones here, and IU miake 


re 


you seed ’em, you blasted nigger!’ But there was uo 


response; only a deep groan, He torciwith disputehed a 
trock* in the direction whence the sound proceeded, 
Nothing moved — not asound was heard. * Now be done, 
Jake!’ exclaimed the now slightly terrified boy, for Vil 
throw again: these stones will kali vou im a auinute, if 
they hit you!’ The answer to this threat was an aveniz- 
ing sond, something between a groan and a lone sub- 
dued bowl; the unearthiy voice ending im a troambding 
; 


, 


Cadence, as thoueh there did oa 


‘A BUST ai 1 | wl. 

Ama gh tye] 
a * © pk 4 | bine seth | ’ fa aN . ] . 
Gl BOS POOt Ost, Sika wie Wiel Loe BOL Ce By oN eee pest 


, 


weht; but there was no other reply. On jookawe tore 


Coo. Retiro Ao Das ere heer. 45 


closcly, however, the trembling lad distinetly saw a body, 


all in white, lying between two graves, not far off, and 


beekonine to him with long, attenuate arms, and occa- 
sional groaning in spirit, as a spint would naturally do. 
‘Well, who's afraid ?? reasoned the lad; ‘if it 2 a ghost, 
itent hurt me; if it aaet a ghost, blast the critter! I can 
liurt Age and Towill!? We now jumped down front the 
wall, and advanced to the spot; and there he found, 


sprawling on her back, between two grave-hillocks, her 


head twisted round against the inner-side of one of the 
marble head-stones, his futher’s old white mare! She 
had met with asad accident while wandering among the 
tombs, and cropping the full-growth of timothy and clover 
‘which grew thereby” She had fallen, rolled over upon 
her back between two graves, and was unable to rise. 
The seeret was now out. He had often heard the dis- 
tressiug groans of a horse in pain, and saw how easily he 
had mistaken the slow-moving legs of *Old) White’ tor 


the beckoning of ghostly hands. 


eo) 


Wr have seen, and read of, some ‘cool’ things in our 
day, but the following, which we derive from an esteemed 
and always entertaining correspondent, is positively * teed. 


A youns Jawyer @ot his first note for collection. Tt was 


twallist & country customer; so he sat down and wrote 


fim letter, im due fe 


unt + WITT ATe- ar 
5 ‘ ‘ — 
CS Ie PEO eal Uae 


wim, advEsine linn Vast Hts fsate was 


ab abo? hed rin Ge dee Ge ae ae 


potion to ‘Rave costs? Todt ten 
answer! 


- Vultew farks, Moaanter Te, PSTe: 


‘ROT. EL, Bag: Deano: TD reegnyeib oye patie nome hie 


Sit ‘ ey has 
Ti instant Lnis de 


t was directed to the post-oflive at Fina 


town, The mail comes from your Villewe to Tompkins eile oyeary 


day lvy the sia 


ime vour Jetiers to this « 
them gener , 
h we x ¢ Let \ 5 
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runs from yorr place to Oweom having 


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COUNTY loom Plas onoe a Wa ek. Tittietha 


nhe ain't read verw well, and somuittines 


Wik Ta speil out the direction, bay a biastees 


ities, where T pet ony papers t slailelaies 


three days aljer you mal tet iyo, ile 
han ut ched. tod reehewte : aah 
t trelis } ‘ ey vp Eset sae | 
arin ed Gy nas hee yen iy 
ab RE hat Sey ey 
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a tisarpasden be Ol 167 Gano. 3) 


Rare litte ‘plants? for the immortal gardens aid 
vroves of the * better land? are children) Tlow continually 
we ‘oldsters’? go back to our earliest days. Take up, 
over Vour morning med, a caily journal, and running your 
eve, fiint readingly, along what inay interest vou pleasaitly, 
perhaps exultantiv, vou casually glance (in passing aiost 
likely to some other department of the paper which has 
aise an-especial charm for you) at the deals, Phere ts 
recorded the demise of a aimetrepolitiar merchant. You 
knew him, when a boy, in the country; you knew him 
also, when, rising by regular steps, from a toiling clerk to 
in) emincnt master of scores of such as he himself had been, 
he walked a monarch in the mart of trade, and lis voles 
wis potent among Smaltitudes of men comimercings You 


read, that on such aday, amidst the crowded thoriieh 


6 


fares of the town in which he had dived so lone, he died. 


Perhaps vou liad not even missed him from the crowded 
streets 2 vet he died; and you remark, in the uotice of his 


funeral, that * lis remains are to be taken, by the evenine 


heat, ores, to —— for interment. Ah! yes; - Is 
aosmell hamlet: far removed from the restless din, the 
@fasivess turmoil, of the great city, where your fiend 
eaindul aul active lite has been passed: but there, ther 
(hie old) Tromestead, les in Svold obstraetion’ an 


sinh homered) fatlver: there vests the “mether who. honk 


Gi eh OR Ue Ne ee eee tiedd TiS pillow, ati 


AG) Ac Yo garde Bap woe Rint Eee ie rae 


tered to his helplessness a sister, tenderly beloved, sleeps 
there: a fair flower, nipped too early by the untinely 
frosts of death : there too ds buried a brother, whose place 
was never, never supplied 3 and there would ke rest. there, 
While the slow-counted hours of illness were notching the 
progress of his earthly decline, he turned ever his thoughts 
of Hiual repose, Tle knew he was soon goine to renew the 
childhood of Tis soul in the undiscovered country: and he 
would rise, at the last great day, to the comsetonsness of a 
new existence, on the very spot where Gaon first breathed 
inte has earthly body the breath of lite amd te became a 
living soul We fegae this, te introdice cn tunmusine 


anecdote of a child; but we could at do it. 


A rrienp tells us a good story ofa Yankee chack-pedler 
down south, which, mene other things, Mav perhsyps aes 
eount for the peenlea faver with which that class of che- 
valiers are rewarded in that region, [le took with hina. in 
a long Connecticut covercd-wagon, forty cloeks, and sold 
and * put em wp alone the country. in one direction, war 
ranting them to keep ‘fusi-rate time. Tle exliaimdted his 
supply, with but a single exception > and then. with tn 
pardleled assurance, he turned about nnd retried tis 
course, ‘The asi person to whor le di sold ge ehock 


hailed shim as he wae woine byop* look. & heim, Saaiieer 


MES OO Tey oN Be eS Os Se Ae 


that clock you sold me aint worth a continental cuss. 
"T wont go at all? ‘You don't say so! Then you must 
ha’ got it, Syuare! See, the fact is, [find by my numbers 
that there was oe o° my clocks — [ had forty on “em when 
[ fust sot out —that Lama leetle afraid on: it was con- 
demmed to-huim ‘fore IT come away; but some how or 
‘nother it got put into the wagon, What's the number 0’ 
your clock, Square 7’ * Fourteen thousand and one, re- 
plied lus victim, * That’s jest the blasted thing)” exclaimed 
the pedler. ‘Tl chang’ with yeou; vedu take my last 
one, and Tl take this hum. The works is good, I cuess ; 
ony want fixin’ a leetle’ The exchange was made : and 
all along the road the pedler was similarly arrested by his 
dupes, who were similarly duped in return. Ile took every 
suceessive bad clock to his next customer, and received 
another bad clock for the next. And this was mentioned 
and laughed at as * Yankee “cuteness” It strikes us for- 
cibly, however, that ‘swindling’ of the meanest kind, 


enation for such a trans- 


= 


would be a inere appropriate desi 


action. 


WoarkisG over the hills to-day, at the Ferry of Dunn, 
that looks deavn upon the broad TappatiwaZee, and the iis 
tht slioves of the lordly Hudson, holding * Youne Whaiev’s 


Hithe Treown hated in ours, as we traversed: tie taintiy tin 


Hels, we-beoun to meditate upon may itis, that even the 


45 Oo “ork ete Aaah ar it ie 


precursors of Autumn are so ielancholy. “The wind Ties a 
diferent Soumd in the trees yt sales ast tall” approneties, 
wid the leaves respond but slightly: to its ost fervent 
hss tomereovery there isa dinshed) silence in the an whieh 
belowes det te Sumamer And these ound things beret 
atirresistibie inward sadness cal ous we wile these 


lines af Tuxtvson cine to tend 


Vhere are io two sadder werds dn the inetish lameness 


than these 2 “io more te tore ! 


\ RADY-rRrEND, boten thowssid amiles fren froth, 
relates the tollowine, Which las <trick ws. rightly coli 
sidered, as possessing an element of the pathetie in ne or 
dinary dewres. © An old Trorse, that lad served: Tits tmerer 
fnithtaliy for some twerty-Hve verry. wies sold tea dower 
pron one ef the Iitile Longlakaul Soane Willa Wear 


New-Taven. aml tedoen to that plensmmt tent fared tacts 


ter thre Wiest lastiies, As the dld fellow. sent ayewaae. Sealy 


anki tie wre er apairs. “iaagis “naa 


el; saad Aelia. dais a a Hsieh 


Ae SE osesoisaN ip mins. ie Tesi 49 


affectinely, that his old owner almost relented, and but tor 
seenmne childish, he would have followed and revoked the 
bargain, a course which dus children, who were watching 
the old horse depart, strenuously urged him to adopt, Te 
disappeared, however, with Tits new master, and soon ater, 
in commpitiy with at large drove ef other horses, he was 
Placed on hoard a vessel, which, one afternoon in March, 
set sul trom: New-Taven for the West Indies. The vessel 
hid hardly reached the open Sound, at night-fall, before a 
storm began to ‘brew which by nine o’clock became so 
Violent that the safety of the ship, captain and erew, was 
placed in imminent jeopardy, The craft labored so heavily 
that it was found necesary to throw over much of the live 
fra¢ht, which greatly encumbered the deck, The oldest 
and Jeast vaduable horses were selected, and amone them 
was our four-legged ‘hero! The stormy waters of the 
Sound received the poor eld fellow : but Ins ‘destiny? was 
not vet to be fulfilled. The shore, which the vessel had 
‘Titteeed? in the tempest, was only three miles distant, and 
this, with amore than * saperhrman ettorty he was enabled 
to reach. Vhat verv ideht his old master was awakenes| 
by the tianiliier * whinnvine? of his thithtal beast, over the 
long-accustomed door-vird gate > saving, like the old * en. 


berlunzie-anan’ in the Seottish some, 


SGet tip. teod nian, ciel der me tnt 


50 Bo Che at RS Ae ao ae ark aD epee 


The familiar sound ename like the voles of Nav Lir's 
*spirit-horse, as cdeseribed hy je aero Eve Bucenniers, to 
that remorseful aaster, The dad + cet up, aud ted the 
old steed into his wonted stall, Which he thereatter occupied 
undisturbed until dis death. With an unerring instinet, 
that animal had travelled twenty-two miles, after reaching 
the shore, before he arrived at the door of his old master, 
LT shall never sell another old horses said the original uar- 


raterof this story to our friend, * the Jonwest day 1 live 0? 


Ir will be some time. if net longer, before we stall 
awaken the echoes of our quiet sanctum with a laugh se 
irrepressible as a oulfiaw which has jist escaped us, ata 
mercantile anecdote tntnitably related hy a German tend, 
An old teljow living at Freankdort-en-the Main, sent to a 
husiness-correspondent at Praiktort-on-the Oder. a turge 


‘4 
Hen) 


copstehnient Of cotton steckimes, and at the same tines 
anether correspondent in the same places an eqiidly Taree 
comsigninent of cotton tught-caps, the product of tas own 
Insatitietory. Tle wrote tecench the pmee at which they 
were to sell, but the sum cesionated was ferme) to tectan 
laree. of which feet they took occasion te inform: Ta. The 
lemiared. but stell tls Werte tue often 


‘ r Pd 1 
* f 1 . #t . 1 
Vier a RAGES JE AS A 


for his fabrics.  Neain he writes, in reply te other Tethers 


of Tis correspondents, iunine a vet stntler fiend bet 


Dh LU Gata Nic enieias dele A ae ey OP aE Eee, aa 


weeks chose, and still no sale. At length he writes to 
each correspondent to make some disposition of lis manu. 
feetures : if they cant get money for them, at least to ex- 
change them, no matter at what reasonable sacrifice, for 
auy other goods. Under these instructions, the stocking- 
juctor calls upon the night-cap agent, both unknown to 
each other in connection with their priucipal, and * names 
his views 7 he wishes to exchange a lot of superior cotton 
stockings for some other woods; he is not particular what 
kind, as the transaction is for a friend, who is desirous of 
‘closing his stock’ The man at first can think of nothing 
Which he would like to exchange for so large a supply of 
stockings ; but at length a bright thought strikes him. 
*T have, said he, 6a consignment of cotton night-cups 
from an old correspondent, which TP shall not object to ex- 
chines for your stockings! The bargain was soon closed. 
The stockine-factor wrote back at once that he had at 
leneth been enabled to comply with the instructions of das 
principal, Phe had exehiuiged duis stockings for ta supe- 
nor article of might-capy ta an equal qnantity, which he 
was assured were likely to be much in demand before a 
great while | 

The next day came a letter from ithe nieht-cap agent, 
HUMOUTCHLS his stieeess, ciel appended to the letter was 


a bie bill tor commissions ' As Yirtowpricsin would sav, 


‘Pangy that vent’s teclinks 1? 


Ge 
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Wie suggested. not fone sinee, that al simplification of 
the nomenclatare of the law would not be amiss: and we 
ventured to offer a few aiguiments Tn suppert of that post 
tien, We are quite of the opinion that a similar simipait- 
cation of Medical NVorenelatire would EOS of Sery jee 
to the minsses, We have sometimes seen thre TWecessity of 
this very Judicrously illustrated, Very mach contounded 
was our fhend Doctor Doann. a few years sinee, by a re- 
mark of one of tis patients. Thre day previots, the Doctor 


had presertbed that sate and palatable remedy. the Ssvriap 


of birch-thera? and had lett his prescription elbily written 
in the usnial cabalistie characters ¢ * aP. Tehatin, bitte 
On enquiring if the patient iad taken the medicme, a 
thunder-cloud darkened her tace: @htuine thished from 
her eves; and she roared out: * Not [ean rested wear 
doctor-writing — and Taint a-got to take the Syrup ot 
Pam-Cats for any body under Go's reiwen 7 + [lence 
We view the creat necessity there is” of a uateriat change 


In our medical nomenclature. 


A Cs a a a 


AN IND EV ESDEND STAGECOACH, DRIVER? WS RETOUR CONGLUSEVERS~ TT SEA 
SSD) RS IND LV ENCES.) FIER DELL DED Fix AND REFRACTORY TWORSTER : 
Dey bib ith Pree RION —— As, AT PROT SNC DIRN ES Soe EY TRALEE 5 
PACE NN oro N LITE MUSICAL. “ORGANS TOL A nNOS NSS. TREE, “OO LESS 
SKIES" OF PARADISE? A RAIL-ROAD *RECUSSANT SA LUPTLE EVENING-SCENE 
tN TIE SANCTUM: IUMORS OF AN ELECTION —THE CHALLENGED ©PRIEND 2 
Ph es WEA AN MUTE NERS ASE Ss? SATURN) WISTS ay: tas 
NMI NGOs, PE CARENG. OES TRONS ES: SLOG? REMINISCENCES IN THE LIT- 
DAE RPL TCG A AOR GHOnG By 


ANY readers will remember Mrs. Kinktanp’s story 


AVE in her ‘New Flome) of the Michigan stage-driver, 
who ‘drew rein’ ina violent autumn-storm at the cate of 
one of the far-seattered cabins of a western forest, nto which 
he ran, leaving his passengers, a burly Englishman aud 
two quertlous, * stuck-up’ daughters, to follow lim, as 
best they might. The doughty Jony Bute came in alter 
him, leading his daughters, with rueful faces and sadly be- 
drageled skirts, all three looking erouty and glum enough. 
‘To sav) said the Enelishman to the driver, who had en- 
stonced Tiimscl? In a warm and cozy seat by the fire] 
=v, that lugeage ought to be brought in, ve kno’? + Wal, 


J should think so, tew. Tf *t was mine, / should bring it 


ime MOAN... “Lt. way och sp nat? ‘Well, tellows why 


SA Ao PS pa Pek tbs WO IE ea as 


. 


dont vou bring iin 2+ Wha don't b brag rt i 2? said 
the other, slowly and with an unmistakable sneer: * why, 
Taint vour servant, de Tf Guess wot: that’s a berry thie 
dowt grow on the bushes about these diguin’s, 1 drive 
you, Square, and PE dont do nothin’ else 1? This incident 
came to mind oa few Moments ago,on hearing a friend 
relate the following aneedote.  TTe said, that soon atier the 
revolutionary war, a brave Yankee officer, a former enptain 
in the service, happened to beat St. Petersbure, in bssia, 
and while there was invited to dine at the table of a dis- 
tinguished merchant. There was a daree taniberof ottests 
at the table, and among the rest an Enelish ely. whe wits 
anxious te dppear ous one of the © knowing ones.” On 
1 


understanding that an American was sitting rear her, si 


hay 
expressed to one of her friends a detertuination to quiz bia. 
She fastened upon hun like a thgress, making memerous 
Wn quires touching our habits, customs, dress, manners, 
modes of Tite, education, amusements, ete Po all these 
qiteries the ofheer cave courteous answers, which scenic 
to satisfy all the COMPAS with the exeention of the land 
herself, She was determined eof to be satistled, and went 
on: * Have the rich people in yorr country any earrings ! 
— for T sitapose there sre sone who call themeachtes enc. 
" Mt residenern. replied the cobain, , is ity ot Ss | Low la 
pen an isiatwl, where there are but few Garritees Ie pits 


but in the larger towns and cites ont thee nisin band there 


PE Snis AEE UN Break aes oleate Pata ter NAGE oS nD 


are quite a number maintained, sited to our republican 
manners.” * Indeed $1? replied dis fair questioner, ina 
tone that was both interrogative and exclamatory 2 $b can't 
finey where you find coachmen: [should nt think the 
Americans knew ow to drive a coach.  * We tind mo ditt 
Hieulty on thet account, Madam, calmly rejoined the cap- 
tain; ‘we can have plenty of drivers by sending to England 
for them. * To England!’ exclaimed the lady, speaking 


> 
> > 


very quickly ; *T think the Americans ought to drive the 


Enelish, instead of the English driving the Aimericans. 


‘We did, Madam, in the late war, rejoined the offeer 5 
‘but since the peace, we have permitted the Enelish to 
drive ust Phere was no more * quizzing * of our American 
during the dinner, Te waited in vain, like Sam Wetter 


i’ BArpEn. vs Prenwren, for the next question, 


‘Tue sea is His, and He made it!’ Now there is 
conveyed in this seutence, to our poor conception at. least, 
a kind of mysterious sublimity; and we never stand by 
the solemn shore of the great ocean, without heariue in 
every wave that, as at rolls pouring onward and exprundine 
side-wise, Qreaks at the ends of its emerald eviinder into a 
musical foam, without taking up the burthen of that per- 
vading Voice, amd exelaiminy, * The sce os TTes ciel Lhe 


modue tte. Aavieiis pleasurable to think that this impres- 


56 Tee iS GA ARP Fis Lar wate wise 


ston. if not weneral, is at least not uncommon. We have 
remarked, with unwented svinpathyy in Dreniss’s last 
story, how the waves, hoarse with the repetition of then 
mystery, aifect lis heroine, as they roll the dank sea-weed 
at her feet, while she stands by the resounding shore. 
Even thus, too, had they awakened a vague yer sublime 


sense of the * Tntinite and the Eternal’ im the minds of 


Frorexce and her *litthe brother @one home to Gop, 
What thotehts of the departed, Whit Spirits of the Past, 
What din toresliadowines of the Futures are evoked by the 
sieht of the illimitable oeean, and the *votee of a lis 
wives | Pexnyson, in a few brief Imes. whieh we have 
repeated alone ou the seashore, we know rot tow often. 
touches this chord, whose vibrations are so melodious to 


the soul: 


ih ix, Uteek 
a) 4 fray = =. (Py § 

And Tow di tongoe eankd mther 
] chés tha rit 

dy & bor, 
ry sister af paw | 
1h 

* ike 
le ‘ 

ime ot 1 4 a 


pple a wD. itm bo ber ie. 57 


* Break, break, break, 
At the foot of thy crags, O Sea! 
But the tender vrace ofa day that is dead 


Will never come back to me, 


Tere was much surrounding cachination where this 
circumstance Was mentioned the other evening + A] ian 
who was ‘somedele” fond of lobsters, was wistfully regard- 


ine a basket of them in the market, with his dog by his 


> 


side, while another by-stander was sticking the end of his 
eane into one of the disengaged claws of a big fellow at 
the top. *TLow he does hotd on +? said the man with the 
cane. * Yes responded the man with the dog, ‘but it’s 
because he ‘dents the cane, and his claws won't slip on the 
wood. Bat he could n’t hold on to a critter, or you or 
T, in that way. When he feels any thing ged, a lobster 
always stops pivchin’’  § Guess not, said the owner of the 
basket + ‘you put your doe’s tail in that there claw, and 
you Tl sce whether he “ll hold on to *t or not’ No sooner 
suid than done: the lobster-lover lifted up lis dog, dropped 
his tail into the open claw, which closed instanter, and the 
dow, tas snit by sudden pain ran off howling, at the top 
of his speed.‘ TTello !? exclaimed the owner, § whistle 
book our dow: d no hin! le *s runnin’ off with the 
itisneie NV tisthe thaely vour lohsler f° rejoined Liecother : 
‘thet dow sint commits beck y that dow “sf yee. bcan't 


era 
ne 


DS Dat. aspoar oe ¢ earn eB aa eae Scie 
eit hime te come tear me when hes in pain’ “That  hu- 
mane citizen dined that day upon as tine a lobster as there 


was in that basket, Sany how ?’ 


Tiree is an alfecting passage in one of the letters of 
Mrs. Granr oof Lavean, recently published, deseribine the 
death of Mrs. brunrox, author of *Selt-Coutrol © Disei- 
plines ete, Being fora lone time without offspring. she 
signalized herself by her tender care of the forlorn sand 
helpless clildren of others. At leneth. after being nineteen 
vears miarried. her only earthly wish seemed about to be 
granted. * Why! says Mrs. Giany, ‘should [tell vou of 
our hopes and joys on this ocension £0 After three days of 
creat sulferiue, she eave birth to astill-born child. | She in- 
sisted on seciny’ it, held its little head, and sid, * The teel- 
ine this hand lias eaused to my heart will never leave it? 
Shortly alter a relative came in, and spoke tenderly of her 
loss, There was nothing so dear to me as my child, she 
replied, tand Toimake my Saviovn welcome to it? She 


‘sorrowed most of all? as she lay on her death-bed. for her 


bereaved lusband 2 thinking sadly with the tender English 
poet 

‘Wats ie ! s this rr 

Awd roy ved than aught ben patie sim 

Wik b rSth F 

i an war plied | t 

Pe fits tires, tro centile linthe cn 


AG oDuRe (Panne 59 


Yur * Lay of the Pump, in all its thoughts is a rank 
plagiarism from [awriorse’s admirable * hull from the 
Yown-Pump, The author may really be, for aught we 
know, what he claims to be, a ¢ Temperance Man 3’ but he 
isa thiet, notwithstanding. By the by, speaking of pumps, 
there Js a very inysterious contrivance of this sort in the 
Village of Cherry -Valley. When the good citizens are 
plunping it, it utters a sort of subdued screech, that seems 
to be a cross between the guttural caterwaul of an enraged 
erimalkin and the opening bray of a donkey. We heard 
it three or four times with increasing amazement 5 and at 
leneth ventured to ask of a by-stander, who was watching 


the Richfield cohorts windin 


2 their way down ¢ Wlute’s 
Hill? into the village, ‘In the name of Discord, friend, is 
that a pump or a jack-ass?? ‘It’s a pump, I guess ; 
though it doos sound something Ue a jack, that *s sartin.’ 
Our informant was a singular-looking genius. Ile had a 
jolly, twinkling eye, a broad-brimmed, low-crowned old 
hat, a nose that turned under instead of up, and a face 
that Javqghed in EVERY, line of its surface. Tle wore. more- 
over, What we had often heard of, but lind never seen Le- 
fore, a pair of leather-rimimed spectacles, with round blac- 
wreen alasses, as if cut from a coarse window-patne. > We 
had a curious jack? he coutinned, *down in our town, bbe 
beloneed toa temible obstinate man, who kept him dm ct lot 


haeko? the meeti-honse, Every Sunday, when the hosses 


60 HEPRRINEXT ON 2 DORs, 


g 


was druy under the shed along the back-eend o° the meetin 
house, that turnal jack would begin to bray, and keep it up 
all sermon-time. In summer, when the windows was open, 
you could n't hear nothin’ else, scasely. The man that owned 
him hated the minister as he did pizen, and he would ut 
put the blasted critter into any other lot, out 0° clear spite. 
But the folks could at stand it; and one day one of the 
deacon’s sons eatched the jack, and putting a kuite up its 
nose, cut out a pleee of the dividin’-gréssle, about the size 
of a dollar, so *s to prevent his braving any more > and he 
didnt make a great deal o° noise while “t was gettin’ well, 
but when it healed, and he tried to play a bray on it, it 
made the aefidlest noise vou ever heerd Tt was a dit- 
ferent instrument altogether, At first: @oin-otF it was a 
terrible bray, but it come out at the eend with the shrcllesé 
whistle you ever see: sharper than a fife. and as Jond as 
the scare-pipe of a locomotive ingine, It was tew much ; 
folks could n’t bear it; and a good many of the congreca- 
tion Jined together, and went to bay the plaguy nuisance 
off. The owner Indited when they called on hin sand tola 
their business: but they etn dim his price, and put the 


noisy critter out o° the paile of the church 2? 


Wre remember crossing to Hoboken one mellow curuinn 


evening With an esteamed friend, one Ameous the most 


nd popular of our American poets. ‘There was 
1p of golden and many-colored clouds in the 
of the setting-sun as we had never seen before. 
bles tied our companion, ‘what a beautiful world 
Bits i us of the balmy airs and ee con less 


can we tr uly appreciate the thers ie thes 


brightness of his beams!’ It has always 


bth 


features) if we may so speak, with the earth ; 


epieted as a place where the redeemed soul, in 


4 


w sphere of righteousness and love, s Te look for the 
a ag ‘ 

Gon the old ruined earth and heaven, from which 
and life shall have departed, and from: which 


een 


e resurrection morning shall redden ‘the last 


| 
ered song : ao 


nays! cies eyes shall see them fall, 
/ Mountains and stars and skies ; 
These cyes shall see thems all 
Out of Uneir ashes rises 
,~ These lips shall then His praise rehearse 
; Whose nod restores the universe !° 


es ae Pie a + he ia ¥ ee 
‘Croupitess Skies. 6! 


without them ? And how gloriously they” 


to us that heaven should seldom be compared, in 


stars: have vanished away, And this, when, 


ed be witnessed, ‘These eyes, says a rapt 


62 Act RAE ROAD eRe se sweet 


A rrienp of ours, sojourmuge during the past suminet 
in one of the far-otf *shore-towns’ of Massachusctt’s Bay, 
was nota litth amused one day at the querulous com 
plainings of ove of the ‘oldest inhabitants” against rail- 
roads} his experience in which cousisted ino having seen 
the end of one daid out, and at length the cars rummne 
upon it. Paking out his old) pipe, on a pleasant: sumianer 
afternoon, and looking off upon the ocean, and) the slips 
far off and out at sea with the sun upon their sails, lie said: 
*/ don’t think much o° railroads: they aiuto kind 0° 
justice Inte Tom. New what kind ©? justice is it, when 
railroads takes one quian’s upland and earts it over in 
Wheel-barrers onto another mas aeesh 2 What kind 
‘cotmmod:ation be they > You ent ao when vou mart to 
wos vou got bo go When the bell rine, or the Dlasted 
noisy Whistle blows. TP tell yeow it?s payin’ tew much. tor 
the whistle. let vou hve a lectle Wilvs OY the deespot, vou 
got to pay to wef to the railroad: and ef vou want te we 
any Wheres else “cept just to the eend om it, VOU Bob Vo 
pay to vowter you wit there, What kind o* “commodation 
is that 2 Got round the country tew, murderin’ folks, 
runnin’ over cattle, sheep, and hoes, and. settin’ fire te 


) 
' 


lridyves, and every new and then Durnin’ up the woods, 


Mis. Hopeiss, down to Cod pint. savscand she oneht to 


know, for she (sa pems women and betomes te the Tower 


1 Dinieuotarpliangvede, MOWGME Rube GORGE IMT Shib ae Noth WRONG wh Gomi Mee (OES 


chureh, she said to me, no longer ago than day-fore vester- 
day, that she'd be cussed if she did mt Avow that they 
sometimes run over critters d-purpose — they did a likely 
shoat o) hemn, and never pai for “t, “cause they was a‘ cor- 
poration they said. What kind 0? ’comimodation is that / 
Besides: now Ive lived here, clus to the dee-pot, ever 
sence the road started to ran, and seen “em eo out and 
come ing but J never could see that they went so d—d 
fost, nuther)? Now here, it strikes us, is an individual 
example of the feeling which constituted the combined 
sentiment that has consigned the Michigan rail-road con- 


spirators to a long and gloomy imprisonment. 


A pean little bright-eved girl, of some five years, who 
has been lying upon the fur-rug before the sanetum fire, 
suddenly pauses in’ her disjointed, innocent chat; says 
‘Little Brisker has come to town,’ and that her eves are 
heavy; creeps up to the paternal knee, and half asleep, 
repeats, very touchingly to us, we must say, and certainly 
Inthe most musical of all ‘still small voices” these lines, 


Which a loving elder sister has taught her: 


‘Justus, tender Shepherd, hear me, 
ress Tiry little amt to-enigtit: 
Throneh the darkiuess be Titov near me, 


Watel: ny? sleep till mons er Tie. 


64 tans: or aR Eee TOR. 


‘AML this day Try diand beth ded ie, 
And I thank Tince for Tay eqre: 
Troe hast clathed me. warmed and fed me 
Listen to my evening prayer’ 
The praver itself dies upon her Tips. in almost indis- 
tinet, sleepy murmurs > only, when Karey, who has come 
for herois taking her away to the mursery, she says, half 


awakened : 


‘take mie. when T dic, to Heaven, 


Happy there with “Lirer te daweil 17 


Since Tetle Jose went up stuirs. we “ve been thinkine 
of this, and beentuse it interested ws. we thought we would 


jot it down. 


Tuer are certain * ffimors of aa Bletion® that are 
worth watching by a lover of the burlesque, + [chil 
lenve that man’s voted 7 said a tellow with * building ma- 
terials in his hat! at an up-town poll last month. The 
person challenwed lived in oa princely Inanston ain thre 
middle of sa emtire Sere, Which contained the orlgvinal 
sol and the original trees of Manhattan Isheamd, * look ow 
here? said the challenger, * what street do vou live ti f— 
what's the number of vour house? ob Whiely side of the 
street ist?) * Phere fs me tatmnber on ney heise. atl i is 


on veither side of the street’ + L thought so) Tho fa 


know which side o” the street veut dives aed dent aon pu 


diss urstieet Cit ahi pmen eRe Duh ated fit bea cee 65 


number onto your door! You can go home to your house, 
if you can find it; you can’t vote the Tiv-whicket, nor no 
other ticket at thes poll)? The challenger was walked out 
by the officers in attendanee, and the last we saw of him, 
he was looking up under the hat of a friend, his body ata 
reeling anele forward, and trying to persuade him to eo ta 
adrinkine-shop near by, and get a‘ scottle of Botch ale! 
Speaking of challenging votes, a friend has just mentioned 
tous a clever anecdote of a trick served upon a challenger 
by an Enelish Quaker, several years ago, before the city 
wis divided into numerous election districts, 6 T challenge 
that man’s vote: he is not a naturalized citizen,’ said a 
rough-spoken individual to the quiet Friend in’ question. 
© Thee must Avew that Lam, think? * If you ave a citizen, 
where ’s your papers 2 We want your papers, interposed 
the challenger. *They are at my residence” * Well, 
vou ‘Il have to bring Vem “fore you ean vote here’ The 
old gentleman went liome for lis papers, but when he 
retuned, the polls were closed. The next year party spirit 
ran very Iieh, and the elections were bitterly contested ; 
and again the English Friend was challenged as before, by 
the same person, and for the same alleged cause. + Now 
thee does wt want ine to eo back this year to my house 
for my papers, does thee? Thee knows T came only a 
little too late with my papers last year, Does thee require 


me to bring them agai 7? * To be sure [do replied the 


66 Pari 2S em Tee 


challengers ‘vou can “t vote tli you show your papers! 
SWoll? said the Quaker with a faint smileon his thee oT 
thought Wat perbeps thee inieht insist mpon seeing them, 
wud so PT broweht them av/A ine this time t* Phey were 
Tall correct! tis vote was deposited. and as lie turned 
round to we out, te said to the discomftited challenger, 


. 


e Farewell, frien}: thee ad better luck last year : 


‘There is an endearing tenderness” save Woysti xc ros 
Irvine, * in the love of a mother for her son, thet tran- 
seends all other atfections of the heart.” We Tntwe just 
heard a touching ilastration of the fret. that the love of a 
son for His mother mew also truscend amd swallow ape cl 
other atfections, at a moment, too, whem he aight well be 
pirdoned for remembering only his own erent trials. 
Some two vears ago, a young man, belonging to Phila 
delphia, was returning by railroad to that city: from: the 
town of Reading, Pennsylvania, By an accident which 
happened to the train as it was approaching town, and 
While he was standing upon the platform, he was thrown 
off, and tell partly tmder the wheels of the succeeding ears 
and his tieht-arm, * marrow, bones, andl alll was eristiel 
toa jelly. atid dropped usclessly at his side. “This, Tro 
ever, Was fortunately his only injurv. He wis a young 


man of determined nerve, aud of the noblest spirit. Te 


GAGS ON Aus EE Nene Oe gut ey Che MI IS; 67 


uttered no complaint -— not even a groan. When the 
train arrived at the dépot, a carriage was iminediately 
ealled, when, attended by his friend, he said to the coach- 
man, * Drive at once to Dr, M——’s, in Walnut-street.’ 
‘Had mt you betier go immediately home 7? asked his 
irivileon = Nog hd che, YD toah want: thenr to: hntow=a¢ 
thine about me until it is all over’ * Our hero, for he 
was a hero, was deaf to all the counter-remonstrances of 
his friend, and they drove rapidly to the house of the emi- 
nent surgeon alluded to. They were shown into the 
parlor, and the doctor was summoned, After an examina- 
tion, * Well, my dear fellow, said the surgeon, for he was 
well acquainted with his patient, ‘vou know, [ suppose, 
What inust. be done?’ +] do, he replied, ‘and it is for 
the purpose of having it done that Tam here’ * My sur- 
gieal-table, said the doctor, tis below.’ ‘Can it not be 
done without that ?* asked the sufferer. ‘I cannot be 
tied —Teannet be held. Amputate my arm here, doctor, 
he continued, holding out his dangling limb over the back 
Pi the wor. Do tthe.) Doctor, i shalk not lineh-s I 
shall not interfere with vour operations’ The limb was 
bared; iwo attendants, medieal students ino the house, 
vere stummoued + the arm was taken off above the elbow, 
while the patient sat as he had requested, utterme ne 
groan, nor speaking a single word, while the operation was 


beiny performed. The dressings were applied; and, at- 


Hs Nak GS GG SISO oe ee 


tended by his friend, the patient had reached the door on 
his way te his own house, which was very near by. when 
he turned round to the surgeon, and said: + Doctor I 
should like to look at my cam once more t pray let ine see 
i. Phe surgeon raised the mangled limb: the patient 
vlanced at the bloodless hand, and ssid, * Doetor, there ts 
a ring Upon the middle tinger of that hand: won't you 
take it off forme ¢ My Morier gave ine that rime when 
she was on her death-bed. Lean part with wy arm, but 
while TL live, Deamt part with that ring!” The ring was 
slipped from the cold, white fimeer t+ Put ait on fect fin- 
ver sald he. holding out the sare Heer of dis lett land. 
As he was leaving the door with his attendant. to enter 
the carriage, he said, * (om shall [break this thing to my 


poor sister 27 Ts not this a frwe * hero? render 7 


‘Dip ver ever see a wild-voose asailing on the ocean ?? 
That is ‘a sight? no donbt: but it strikes us that the ar- 
philions stulking Flamingos around the fountain at the 
Dowlne-Green are objects even more to be admired,  No- 
thing can exceed their singularly grotesque appenratce, A 
Transcendental cerrespondent of ours, who tol just heen 


rendling a ‘eherus of spirits? In a new Crerrian play om 


pron wed the follav ie 


. } } ‘3 ) \ 
lines the etter dav, whive boy yn 


through the rusty tron pickets at that bit of fehaste prac- 


aes te eae ie vor 69 


tice’ in fountain-architecture, the pile of rocks that rises in 


‘ragged majesty? within the pales : 


Posten) 


‘Om! tell me have you ever seen a long lewd Flamingo ¥ 


Oh?! telline have you ever seen in the water him go? 


‘Oh! ves, at Bowling-Green Eve seen a long-legd Flamingo, 


Ob! yes, at Bowling-Green Uve seen in the water him yo.’ 


Oh! tell me did you ever see a bird so frnny stand-o, 
When forth he from the water comes and gets upon the land-o ? 


‘No! in my life [ne'er did see a bird so funny stand-o, 
When forth he from the water comes and gets upon the land-o,’ 


‘He tie alee some three feet long, or near it, so they say, Sir, 


SulP upon one wone he stands, Cother he stows away, Sir’ 


“Nal whatan dely head he’s got! b wonder that he'd wear it. 


But rather more L wonder that his long slim neek ean bear it 


“And think, this length of neck and less, (nu doubt they lave their uses,) 
i 


Are members of a little frame, mueh stoatier than a goose’s ! 


“OUT isnt le aenriotis bird. that red lone leed Phase ° 


Aowater bird, a cawky bird, at sine tar bird. by dine 


a0. PUTING QO Pertene GH Pdoogre, 


Most likely many of our readers will remember this 
‘vexed question | in Joule t ~Tt either races or it does not 
run but it does wof rain: therefore it rats. This used 
to puzzle us hugely; as did also the mathematical pro- 
blem, in simple equations, which ensues t tal edf has one 
more tall than wo eat: uo cat has two tals: ero. a eat 
hus three faals 2? The conclusion Is Irresistible. [ere is 
something, however, which is of deeper import: * poms- 
=ON studied daw with Dorsos, under the aereement that 
he should pay Dousos. when he (losses) armed hes 
est cause, After atime Dopsosx vot tired of waiting for 
the conditions of the contract, and sued -lomNsos tor dis 
pay. He reasoned thus: *Iy To sue him 1 shall eet pat 
at any rate, because i T gare the enuse, P shall dhe qeaid 
by the decision of the court > if | fase it, TL sleall The pou 
hy the conditious of the contract, for then bousxsosx will 
five eained dus first cause: therefore Toa sates Donws- 
sex.com the other hand. bene prodigiously fiehtemed, 
somught counsel ane was told to ressen thus: ~Dansos 
reasons Well, bart there must be a flaw an dis arenmecitt 


heeause J aid met Aeowill vain the victory. Tt whe sntt 


fore Th min taver, | shall cain. ¥ the vheasiem qian 
aanrt: fit woes seainsh me. VT stail @am. de lew thie tases 


ot the covtract, tet liawing vet wen may Pst erase, OOF 


COP ret | shall Hot hive VO Oey itm #3 bree la Lavegiyie 4 


(Witteman Upeethed bg! bey estgrtcas em eral aK OE Cant rn Be v1 


ScrrixG cin the little chureh near the ‘Lake Tlouse, 
Lake Georges, to-day, with congenial friends, we were 
taken back, on the wings of memory, to the days and the 
seenes of our bovhood. We were once more at the old 
lomestend. once agau at the old country-churely: for here 
were the high-backd pews, of the uative color of the 
woody the pulpit: without adornment: the jack-kuite: in- 
itinls of bows, carmed about by no fwind of doctrine’ 
head at conventicle, but contrariwise, full of the very 
Sold Serutch? during sermou-time; may, here were the 
very paihieand-hyiwn books, in the tidentienl” sheepskin- 
binding of vore. But no Motiren came into that homely 
pew with us, unfolding from around) her fan the sweet- 
smelling white handkerchief redolent of the aroma of 
dried orative-peel, that scented the VaR, drawer whence it 
Was tuken, and taking thence sprigs of fragrant * caraway’ 
and sternel” te cive to her tthe twineboys; no Drorien sit 
there, with his voung heart even then full) of unuttered 
and uiwritten poetry. as he looked through an open wine 
dow upon the green contented: fields of summers sliim- 
erie in the het daze that dume over them. like the 
erates pea had, eaerhata ye furs p ar sii 
veved ou the fan the fair pietured darnsel dio vernidiien 
robes amd blue lat, assisting a dith: bow. ie tright yellow 


round-about and white sailer-trowsers, to tay a scarlet kite 


“Onward 


dumib !? 


the wrave : 


CO rrrearq mart Tha Re oe eo ae 


tal. All these asseciations wer ot the 


\ 


The smile of Tope, and 


Fame’s meteor-bea 


driveth ‘Time, and ina little while our lips are 


All things have their season, and ripen tew:rd 


ripen. fall, and: cease. 


Sead be Re TRG 3 


> 


MATEER-OF-FACT GUEST? PATN CRON THE ROOF! A MOTILER'S GRIEF! THR 
SEES NOW? VRIES CE DEN ACEP Shit S—= i SE DEFINI 2 TSE vs 
Peis ty As Ue, METROPITIS. UPON TAs: QTE Gotiwhiyargn: ~& 
SERADECE ACGIDEND* — A YANKS REVENGHS SUGGESTION. OF xy Tased- 
MOTMAS. ON: A AWISTED RIGHTY A SCOT SOONSOLATIONS FOR A SLIGHT: 
DI VAN RE b, REALISE: SETI NI PERE ES AEE AS 
“UGLY  CVSTOMER— PEARLYSSNESS OF RIVALRY! DEATH OF 1HONOLA FDGE- 
WOE) ERTS “PUR DRINKING? GLP AIPITY OP TI MOTEAAG 4 SiMe 
FEMALE, SMUGGLER. 


MPMILERE is an amusing character in a sketch we have 

just read: one of those stupid matter-of-fact. persons, 
who can never appreciate a figure of speech, or wuderstand 
the simplest jest. AS benign eerulean, enthusiastic for the 
Sriehis of the sex, remarks that woman’s rights and duties 
are heeaming every dav more widely appreciated, ‘The 
old-fashioned scale must be re-adjusted ; and wonian, no- 
ble, elevating. surprising woman, ascend to the loftiest 
emiuence, and sit superior on the topmost branch of the 
sock tree’ The ear of the matter-of-fact man catches the 
wast sinule, and he ventures to say: * Unectamen bad 
WeInest part in ceneral, is women. © Then 
clothes ist adapted te dt, Touiuds once L seen a woman 


” 


climb a pole after a lea of muttine Tf looks eould have 
} a) S 


74 AM «ani =O Pa Po ae See 


killed the inalaprepos speaker, he would not have sur 
vived the reception which this ridiculous remark en- 
countered. trom uvery Gudst at the table. Hle was TimseR 
struck with the mournful silenee that followed is obser- 
vation, and added, by way of explanation: ‘That was a 
thing as happing’d on a pole y im coers it would be werry 
different on a tree, because of the branches” At leneth, 
however, the theme of wont is renewed by the former 
advocate: * Woman lias not vet received her full develop- 
ment. The tune will come when her didluence will be 
universal: when. softened. subdued, and elevated. the sni- 
mal now called Man will be unknown. You will be all 
women } can the world look for a ligher destiny 7 + Tp 
coors,” observed the ‘actual’ man, ‘if we are all rammed into 
woming, the world will come to an end, For “spose a 
ease; “spose it had een my sister as married) my wife, in 
stead of me: it’s probable there would wt have Teen 
no great funbly > wich in coors, iP there was to peyena 


tion ——’ 


What the result ofthis supposed ease would Tawe ts ou 
Was not permnitted to transpire. The feminine pret of the 
company dintnediately rose and) left the table, and the 


matter-of-fact man to the ridienle of the male onests, 


We sat the other evening. listening te the warmish 


autumn rain that was falling without: and while we list 


KARO its oes Gaps ae: 75 


ened, we thouelit of these lines, from the pen of A. Z, 


Lorpxozoo : 


Wires the humid starme-clouds gather | ‘There in finey comes my mother, 


Over all tia: starry sypdteres, Ax she used. to years aun, 
And tie mekaieholy dark sess To survey the fifint sleepers 
GrOTAty Wc }os Pah Tears, Tere stie lett ther till dhe dawn. 
"Tis a jey te press the pillow Tecan see ler bending o'er me, 
Of a cottage-chumber bed, As [listen to the strain 
And tu listen tothe patter | Which is played upon the shingles 
Of the sett rain over-head, By the patter of the rain, 
‘Every tinkle on the shingles *Then my little seraph sister, 
Hlas an echo in the heart, , With her wings and waving hair, 
Auda thousand dressy fancies And her bright-eyved cherub brother, 
Into busy being start ; A-Serone, ancelie pair, 
Amd a thonsand recoteetions Glide arouud my waketul pillow, 
Weave thelr bright Tues into woof, | With their praise or mid reproot, 
Ag | listen to the patter ) As [listen to the murtiur 
Of the soit rain on Ue root | Of the soft rain on the roof’ 


We stood by a western window of the pretty Episeo- 
pal church at Binghamton, on a recent Sunday morning, 
and sw oa funeral procession enter the gate, and defile 
under the spring-tine trees, just putting forth their first 
tender verdure, The day was sunny and beantifiul; 2 sefi 
wine was plaving anudst the leafy foliage and the grass: 
wl as the svmpathizing concourse gathered around the 
freshlysopened graye, we could not help thinking hew 


dupker aust be the hearts of the bereaved peuenite, Wie 


stood in suppressed anomish at its head, trom the very 


70 OM at eek Ss te fiw, 


beauty and Taightness around them. The litte coffin was 
lowered into the crave; the hollow sound of thiline snand 
and eravel fell faintly upon the ear; and that only child 
of loveliness and promise was leftin its cold and narrow bed. 
until earth and sea shall heave at the trump of Gop, As 
we tummed away from the window, and awaited the morn- 
ing service of the sanctuary, we thought of that desolate 
mother and that bereaved father, and how impotent would 
be all attemps at consolation for the Joss of an only and 
darling child. And therewithal came to mind the retlee 
tions upon a stmilar scene of sadness by the eloqnent au 
thorat * Te Mission of Littl Children 2 * Noone fools 
the death of a child as aamother feels i. The fither can- 
not realize thus. True, there is a vaecaney in dis home 
aml a heaviness in las heart. There is a chain of associa- 
tion that at set tines comes reund with its Droken link: 
there are memories of endearment. a keen sense of loss, a 
weeping over erushed dopes, aud a pain of worded aft 


fection, but the Voth feels that one tres been taileen 


away who was still closer to her heat. Leos has Vase 
the @ffice of constunt ainistration, Every oradetion ot 
_ 2 


feature developed before er eves: she detected every giew 


1 a og 5, ON | Daa ap IP ee 
stent Of infant mteliiwenee: she heord the first vitterines 
af every stamiering word: she was the relent js 

a ] \ 
the eaputy of es s* avd avert i tyes 


anew link. and made dear to her as object. Atel when 


=! 


ASC NENATION I ORS ae ONG SAME ICEL ONG 


her child dics, a portion of her own Tite as it were dies 
with it. How can she give her darling up, with all these 
loving memorics, these fond associations 2 The timid 
lands that have so often taken hers in trast and love, how 
cin she fold them: on its sinless breast, suid surrender them 
to the eold clasp of Deara? The tect whose wanderings 
ste has watched so marrowly, how can she see then 
struvhtened to go down into the dark valley 2 The heal 
that she has pressed to ler Tips and bosom, that she las 
watehed in peacettl slumber and in’ burniny sickiess, a 
hair of which she could not see harmed, oh, fom can she 
cOnsIon it to the dark chimber of the wraxes [twas a 
gleam of sunshine and a voice of perpetual cladness in 
her home: she diad learned from it blessed lessons of sti 
plicity, sincerity, purity, fiuth : it had unsealed within her 
a oushing, eS tide of affection ; when suddenty 
it was fekew away, and that home is lett durk and silent; 
and to the vain and heart-rending aspiration, ‘Shall that 
dear child never return again ? there breaks, in response 
throueh the cold OW silenee ‘Nevermore — oh, PORES = 
more The heart is Tike a forsaken mansion, and. thet 


word goes echoiny through its desolate chambers. 


Tiere isin Wensver’s old spelling-book a spelline and 


‘efining lesson of words of four svilables. A fricnd men- 


~} 
L 
es 


WIN AG Te, Se Bs 


tions a tudicreus mistake mule by a distriet-sehool-hoy im 
the country, Dh the exercises of this Tasso, (he at ihe 


weirs nz 


pete t6 be dee phaluis: Without a bende It 
was Civjided as tswal mis ts sepirate SV Tables, cobeeted 
bvoa divphen, (which *jeins words or syllables, as sea: 
witer D) which probabiv led the boy to give anew word 
wl a new definition: *Lhen spell it and Vtine it? said 
a dad after the boy above dim had tried and missed: 
‘Thun de ty and le did: =l-c-e-p-h, co) Acnpu—a fons 

o. 7 


Alte l fia 


wh Oe : : ne 
et a head , ‘* Most all of Cem Jatehed? our intent 


ant Sarvs, * when ilu hoy sail tne 


Tar following opinion of our Great Metropolis ts re- 


corded with at diamond on a pane et elass Ti a poet oat, 

Astor Tlouse, which commands Daisvars + Curiosity 
Shop’ in front, and is * right fernent’ *"York Meetti~ one" 
on the ether. The writer rane for his boots one Meme 
about dav-iteha, paid his Mill aid hat. vowing thea he Trad 
‘made tis first and last visit to New-York.” Fionn Tus will 
look gid tused-ap’ maaner (nothing farther having twit 


Jeesurd al’ <n it is feared he as ‘made avew acm) dame- 


Tre Quiet CouNTRYMAN, 79 


‘Small blame to him for it ¢s enough to set even the 
sedatest countryman crazy to enter the great thorough fires 
of ‘a city that is full of stirs, a tumultuous city.” How 
sober soever his mind, the prevailing excitement will seize 
him, and he will mingle with the contlicting currents like a 
straw revolving in the hurrying eddies of a running stream. 


Tn the evenlng, especially, when 


—— ‘all the spirit reels 
At the shouts, the leagues of light, 


The roaring of the wheels,’ 


the town, to one unused to its busy scenes, is absolutely 
overwhelming, 

Can you show me Main-street ? said an ingenuous, 
fresh-looking Young man to us, the other morning, near 
Tdson-Syitare, as we were walking down to the pub- 
lication-oflice. ‘Muaim-street ? we asked: ‘New-York has 
no Main-street + you are thinking of Broadway, perhaps ? 
‘Oh, ves: Broadway — that’s it. Ddid n't know: Lnever 
ben ina city afore? We aceompanied him to and down 
Broadway, and enjoved Acs enjoyment at all the strange 
stehts he saw. We almost envied him the romaniie weva- 
wesxof Tis sensations. Tle was positively eloquent, in Tis 
sunple wav, as he depicted lis emouions on nears the 
metropolis in the morning steamer, As he approached 


thts *London of America’ the eloud of coal-reek which 


80 & OD) ei ap ot Ae eee 


overhuny the giant city, Indicating its Vietuity lone before 
he reached the northern verge: the many sails which were 
tending toward it, ia the expanding river and openine har 
bor; and at last, the broad bay, with tall ships scttine in 
from the sea; the steamers and water-craft of every des- 


eription hurrying to and fro from either shore; and the 


(rreat Metropolis itself stretching into the distance, with 
its domes and spires, its towers, cupolas and ‘steepled 
chimnies, rising through a canopy of smoke. in the eray 
dawn of a cloudless September morning : these, barsting 


upon his sensitive vision at onee, hel filled his nited. auc 
almost made him a painter throweh the miedinm of words. 
Ile renewed within us our love of, aud pride tm. this our 


pleasant dwelling-place, the great metropolis of our native 


state, Whit a city shall we be by and by! 


A CoNripaiin wae it was who startled: evers henls on 
the deck of the ‘Jou~ Mason’ steamer the othe davon 
her wav fron: Albany to Trev. with the inauirv, it a lad) 


nasal tone :.* Elear of that dreadful accident to-day aborrd 


the Creenbush loss-boat Nad. 4 rie leai-a-cdozen 
bystanders atones > * no Pe What wae abo). 2 Ae ies 
was tellin’ of if down toe the cee-pott and mie as 7 vay 
eallate, the dross-hoat had e@ot witht abeant ter rer of 


the wharf. when the larbeoard-hoss bu’st ate ¢ carve 


tern, 1, Unshippin’ her radder, and sealdin? more 

- passeneers' I do n't know as there is any 
to it; praps “taint so; but any way, that ’s the 
The narrator was less successful, according to his 
int, with a rather practical joke whieh he under- 
y upon a Yankee townsman of his, a week or 
in New York, ‘Ife never liked me much, 
aes nor I did = him, Pas sai T nae 
ons fe you cided (a coe Ricniner at? ia 

eve’ to sift fapple-saiice,’ ete.) when [see him 
counter goods ina store. So T went in and 


. 


Ife lanes Renn at, 
ae “een-amost ea he wasso mad. The clerks 
they did — but he did wt, T guess. ‘1 want to 
a minute? says he, pooty -solemm, and comin’ 
the door, I went; and just as soon as 1 got on to 

rowsteps he kicked me! T did u't care — not 
+; but if his geese do n't have the Shatick 


aT = home, rene ean take ee pie they 


iw 


Bo BiG @oape ri ON Sa Ware a Nie 


mi fhta shirk. Vo ruther guess he did wt get vem, but J 


do mt know — not sartain,’ 


Wiar supernatural shriek is that, sounding through 
the murky air of this stormy February night 7? Twelve 
o'clock, too, Sy ry Lady 2 but be not alarmed. Tt is only 
the sterm-wlhistle of the iron horse on the Tudson River 
railroad, rushing into the Great Metropolis, at a ‘two-forty’ 
pace, bringing with Tim lundreds of passengers, some of 
whom, linving never been to town before, are bewildered 
with its inerensiue vastness: the thickening Inmps + the 
branching, crossing, lenethening, interminable streets: the 
Sloneues of Hight, the roaring of the wheels” That sume 
snorting steam-horse, scarce an hour ave, as lie swept with 
his train through the very walls of the state’s-prison at 
Sing-Sing, rumbled in the ears of the halflwakened cap- 
tives, Hustrating by his own wild) freedom the liberty 
dented to them, and spoke of pleasant villages passed. and 
fianiliar scenes toward which he was rushme: he startled 
the echoes of Sleepy-Teatlow, and the demons fled af 


frighted, for a erenter than the steed erewhile bestrode tiv 
the * Headless Horseman” was new spottine the diet white 


Drecth from its drondostrils  onwird te cenme: prist sredebeny 


‘Sunnvestle? disturbime not, let us hope, the timtes: of 


that nest of Genius and -refinenieit® ow fo “Wee dius 


over the very soil of the pleasant places where 
Younes Kyick,’ and his little sisters so often 
frolicked with the ¢ gooéd vrouw, along the 7 
the beautiful Tappaan-Zee. ‘But what is all | 


ee 


asks ne reader. Nothing in the world but 


custom, as we Jearn from a friend, in all parts 


to send invitations, when a death oceurs in a Bie: 


ighbor was omitted by the bereaved family, 
Reese) a feud pects arisen sees tesa 


Ap ihe 7 ar 


Re OP ase Ya ee a A Se ee 


self and a successful Yankee speculator, wie hid * come 


OVEeOr TO see Ew-r pe. Scene. Powerks’s studio $LE Florence * 
Kuter stranger, spitting, and wiping his lips with lis land. 
‘Be vedu Mr. Peowers, the Skulpture MA eer he) sculptor, 
and iny mane is Pownrs. * Y-e-a-s ¢ well, | spected so 3 
they tefl? ine you was — y-e-d-s, Look here —driviw a 
pretty suf business, eh 7s Sir Pos Lb osay, plenty to du, 


” 


eh.? “What d’s one o them feteh ?: *Sir i © sake ae 


what ’s the price of one of them, sech as vedu Tre peckin 
at neéw? * Iam to have three thousand dollars for this 


, 


7 1 . 
coven TEU ENP) 


when it is completed! * Weleda. 
3 Three thousand dollars, tT hese daii-tet te eena 
d-o-l-l-a-r-s!)— Wan't statewary rz lately) P was eal inti 
to buy some; but it’s fer high, Hew ’s pamlins ¢ 
“Gruess Lmust gitsome paints, Zeher--e blee-nots et 
d-o-l-La-r-s /) Wellpit is a trade, skuipin ist that “s sar 
tain, What do thev make veou pay for vour fools ined 


4 Spect ivy oldest boy, Cermas, could skulp “Tey, 


study: 
lL know hie could. He is alwaws whitti’ reourmd, and 


ewutiw awav atthimes. To owish von “d Jeree to take lima 


‘prentice, anc. let him wo a? it full chisel. DD” vou know 
where [7d be liable to put him eout ? Te “d en stam 
ater awhile with the best of ye ; he would ac Mins 
money, few, at them prices, TZ her-e-«- thad-temeent 
A-Onistat— *~ 2 Aral th Aan 7 t i A ii 


He ow exhibits % ‘jot’ -of fust-?a brea 


fricnds. 


NEE Nee SISSON Gey Ne Eee ayler ls é 


Gr 


We beg leave to present two new ‘renderings’ from 
Taner,’ which an muovating Yankee actor at the West 
considers authentic readings. [Le detends the first, upon 
the ground that the same spirit which had * abused’ ILasa- 
tet had previously treated his friends discourteously, kept 
them up at night, and prevented their sleeping on their 
posts. Llence ‘thus amver 

— ‘Tun spirit that [have seen 


May bea devil; and the devil hath power 


To assume a pleasing s 


apes rea. and-perhaps 
Out of my weekness and my melancholy, 
As he is very potent with such spirits, 


Abuses aé too — damn-me !” 


Ba 


This is suite ditterent from the usual reading, and. is as 
much wy timproyement’? upon the original as any of Mr. 


Htpsos’s modern versions. The rendering in the sub- 


Joined passage from the same play is defended on the 

eround that Wasrer looked up to Lonarro, in lis * weak- 

ness amd his melancholy’ as @ futher, and therefore: he 

whlressed him by a dinimutive of that endearing term : 
NH son Dost thou think Apes axnenvoked o this tastdon i the arth 2 
dire. Iter sa, 


CTA Navel sneae Sh, Pitt 


CERO aah FoI Jonds 


We subimit these rendines to the hosts of SiASSPERLAS 


commentators who intest society. 


86 Pinks ees se pes ier Biv ans, 


The play of *Tamerer’ was being enacted, and there 
about of it especially where CeciLDENSTERN Is employed by 
the Dane to play upon the pipe, just to oblige him, He 
is very importunate tor the musie, it will be remembered : 
and on this occasion he was accommodated to lis hearts 
content,  GUILbDENSTERN replied to his earnest solicitations, 
that since he was so very pressing, he would give Inn a 
tune: and forthwith accomplished, to the best of lis small 
ability. that sublime national ir ¢ Yankee Doodle? together 
with certsin extempore flourishes, which he termed + the 


variitions. 


‘Tue Wes is a great country, Friend © ——, writes 
a clever correspondent. * Tall things happen there now 
and then. Pere is a speciinen: Having occasion to pass 


throneh the Upper Lakes last Jane, 1 was happy eneugh 
to find myself a passenger on board that palace of a boat 
the *Esprme” Emperor Towr commanding. My travel- 
ling companion for the thue happened to be a thoreugh- 
bred * Hoosiers a prince of a tellow + one who feared Gop 
and loved fun and the Indies, but who was withal a most 
abominable stummerer. We had avr been long aboard, 
When the captain called our attention to a most remark- 
able-lookine individual seated at the end of the cabin. J 
am not myself particularly handsome, and have seen some 


‘nt, mie 
hey “rr cit 
Lik IONS 


men immy day: but so welv a mean as this tad 


Daa Tate eel SEL Os Onno Our DeGraw OoRen Ike | > owe 


never crossed the scope of my vision. Howe declared 
him emphaticaliy * the ugliest man that ever lived 37 where- 
upon iy frend Tom offered to wager a half dozen of 


oO 


champagne that he had seen a worse one in the stecrage. 
The bet was at once aecepted, and Toa started for lis 
man; who was to be brought up for comparison, Ile 
found the fellow a bit of a wag, as an intolerably homely 
man is apt to be, and.atter the promise of a nip,’ nothing 
loth to exhibit himself. As they entered the cabin door, 
my friend, with an air of conscious triumph, turned to 
direct our attention to his champion, when he discovered 
the fellow trying to insure success by making up faces. 
' St—st—st— stop l said he; ‘no-no — none of that! You 
3f—st—stay just as God Alinighty made you! You ea- 


—ca—ca—cawvt be beat’ And he was n't! 


Is x’r this a touching picture of the death of Honora 
Encewortn, as described by her husband? It so strikes 
ast Satter having sat up all the night, L was suddenly ealled 
at six o'clock in the morning. Her sister was with ler. 
Phe moment that I opened the door, her eves, Which bad 
oeen fixed in death, acquired suflicient power to turn them- 
selves toward ine with an expression of the ufmos: tender- 
ness, She was supported on pillows. [Ter left arm hong 
anil 


ooos her sister’s neck, beyond the bel. She smiled, 


pak eee Was Dow way ee 


breathed her last! At this moment [ henrd something fall 
en the qloor, It was her welding-ring, which she liad 
heldoon her wasted finger to the Jast mestant: remember- 
ing with fond superstition the vow she had made. never 
again to dose that ring but with life. She never moved 
again, nor did she seem to suffer any strugyle.” + They 


loved in dite, and in death they were not divided ? 


Ix a certain town in New-Hrampshire, a eertain inhabi- 
tant thereof required for his comtortable enjovinent at least 
a pint of * white-taeed New-Eneland, daily. Tle dind be- 
come reduced in dus pockets, so that it became necessary 
for him, like the Israelites of old, to procure somehow .a 
double portion on the day before the Sabbath, that he might 
quietly enjoy his church, of which he was a constant ai- 
tendant. On one Saturday he had been very unfortunate ; 
for the shades of evertny began to fall, aud vet he lad mot 
gathered Jus ‘spiritual’ manna for the day of rest. A 
maghbor at that moment requested him to throw seme 
wood into hisshed + and atter the small job was completed, 
gave timeoa few cents, Ele saw that the old fellow looked 
snd anel unsatistied. aud ssid to home: - Ts wt that cnonih 


for the work? Why, vou can get halfa-pint with thar 


mouev t and eat vou keep Sunday on tate * Whit 


suppose T could, “Squire, but then’ Cooking up with 1 
os © 


Os Den Viera ew TOM I eh eNO & Wee, SO 


disconsolate visage) but then, “Squire, how would it be 
kept 2 ‘Thus anecdote by a clever correspondent remind: 
us of another, which we shall venture to relate in this con 
nection, though it must needs sutker by the juxtaposition. 
Mr. G——, who had by degrees become so attached to lis 
cups that he conld not comfortably go by eleven o'clock 
without his ‘nip? of brandy, and who was vet anxious to 
avold the suspicion of being an habitual drinker, was in 
the habit daily of inventing some excuse to the bar-keeper 
and those withm hearing. IIe had used up all the stereo- 
typed reasons. such as ‘a sheht pain’ a fa kind of sinking’ 
hot “teelino rohit) ete, ete > One Saturdayoat the usual 
hour, he called for his brandy-and-water, saying, ‘T am 
extremely div; Lam going io have salt fish for dinner 


"No excuse was better than none,’ he probably thonght. 


One of the earliest settlers of old Schoharie was a man 
mamed Murpiy, more fianiliarly known as * Old Mureny.’ 
IIe was a terror to the Indians and their sworn eueniy, for 
he had suffered much from their robberies, and wanton de- 
struction of his erops and eattle. But his most deadly 
hate arose from the murder of his two broilers; for which 
act he solemiy swore to devote his life to their extermmtin- 
tio, Old) Merpoy’ was a wily enemy, asthe Tndians 


ate 


had well ascertained: and they sought his Ite by all 


90 “Oin po Abe art §? Goes or ee ONG ree are 


possible artitice and stratery. On one ovedsion their wiles 
eume near being suceesstal.  Mcapriuy lvel a cow, whien 
wandered from his cabin durtug the day to browse in the 
woods, with a bell suspended from her neck te indicate 
her whereabout > returning always at might to be miked, 
and with ‘udders all drawn dry’ to stand and indy ru 
minate’ by the hut until morning called her to sally forth 
again. One evening she failed to return: another day 
passed, and with it the hour ‘when the kye came hime’ 
usually, but ske came not. Fearing that she itel met 
with foul phe, Mouneny started, with tis rifle on his 
shotder, to ‘look her wpe following the dircetion she wis 
takine when she left the but. After several lowurs of fruit- 
less pursuit, the fant sound of rer familiar bell in the dis- 
tance claddened his ean * IVs ail meht? said he, in’ lus 
deleoht at finding lier: and die rapedly neared the spot 
Whenee the sound proceeded, a thicket of close under 
growth, in the heart of the forest. All at once he stopped 
sori. That is * Old Spots bell? said he. * hat i= net on 
hier neck : she dowt swing ber bell in that way when she 
browses. There ’s mischief here 2 Crntiously approaching 
the spot whence the slow and regular ‘tingling pre 


eeeded, je saw at some sixiv yards distant two Jinlinaes 


seated upon an old inossy log, peering intently wow aged 


then ite. the resesses of the wal, and ab Terms oF 


three or four minnies slowly swinging the cowed! wich 


Pernt, arate Nine ty ta! Pa Neate Gar Cees Te 91 


they thought would bring ‘Old Mereuy? into their toils, 
yasa bird hasteth to the snare” But it was kes hour of 
jev. net theirs, THe watched the mevements of the red 
rascals as nent watches a mouse when site in ler claws. 
Sectire from observation behind a large tree. he selected 
the > bell-wether” and with deliberate aim sent a bullet 
throueh lis heart. The Indian uttered one shriek, sprang 


le the 


Ciree fect or more upward, and dropped dead best 
loy upon which he had been sitting. Tis eomrade looked 
round in amazement to gather the direction of the shot, 
and then shouldered the dead body of lis comrade, and 
Was moving off, when a second shot from the musket 
which Mernvoy had by this time loaded, had him and his 
dewd conrpanion lifeless together. There were two withered 
scalps hanging on each smoky jamb of Old Mcrviy’s 
lire-place for more than twenty vears: and he always re- 
eurded them with a ‘erim smile’ when he was rehearsing 


the history ot their HG UUSTtION, 


*Poctry Run Mad? js inadmissible, on two accounts. 
In the first place, it strikes us we have met parts of it at 
least before: aud in the second, the stvle has Couthved our 
liking! = Nobody but Tloop manages well this reseed 
species of verses a very clever specimen of which is cone 


tained in lis * Custoim-House Breeze? the story of a lady- 


92 Pare BP ey aoe 8 athe ae 


smugeler who would not go ashore at Dover, because there 


was ta searching wind? blowing, which might expose the 


lace-swathings of her person: 


‘Is spite of rope and barrow, knot, and tuck, 
Of planks and ladder, there she stuck! 


She could mt, no, she would mt go on shore. 


‘But. Mvvam the steward interfered, 
‘The wessel must be cleared, 
Yoru mus it stay aboard, Mivam. no one do wt! 
Its quite avin the ord rs so to do, 
And all the pissengers has gone bat yous 
Says she, ‘1 cannot go ashere und won't! 
‘You ouche tot? 
But Lem tt” 
*You mush)? 


rs 


‘LT sha’ n’t 


NUMDER FOUR, 


THE: QGACK-DOCTOR | NAPOLEON: AND UHIS DBATTLES? -MALSADROIT COMPII= 
MENT + THE LIVING-DEAD: PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGH UNDER DIFFICULTIES ¢ 
A TEMPERANCE STORY ¢ COMFORT OF COMMON THINGS; A IlOG IN ARMOR + 
POEDIEY OF THE ANEMABRYS ACLHENTIC ANECDOTE, OF THE DEKE OF WELE= 
LINGLON |) PRRILSS OF <Ac SACKASSS Ay DEANS OISN?) TOMES INSTENIAL OIF 
SUENPECKELY’— THE WELPLESS ‘$MELP-MATE?! SONNE TECRING, AV LI at 
SPEGIIBN £ (REMINISCENCES. DEATH (ORY A GOOD ACAN: 


6 | STUMBLED on a character the other evening,’ writes 

a friend, ‘on board a steam-boat, which presented 
some traits that [thought rather original and unique. | 
daguerreotyped him on the spot. [had just finished supper, 
and was quietly enjoying my cigar on the deck, when I heard 
an individual declaiming in a loud tone of voice to some 
two or three attentive listeners, (but evidently intended for 
the benelit of whomscever it might concern,) on pathology. 


im 


Being as it were thus invited, I also became a listener to 

something like the following: ‘There it ts now! Well, 

some people tall about seated fevers. I don’t know any 

thing about seated fevers; there aint no such thine as 

seated fever, A musquiioe-bite Is a fever; eure the bite, 
; 


a his ig ae Giattey PEE & a Men ee : = 
and the fever leaves vou. So with a dide—just the same 


thing; their aint no such thing, I tell vou, as seated fever. 


94 pe Ate Korres 


a 


The fact is, vour regular doctor practizes according to 
books. T practize according to common sense. Now there 
was Dr. Reeu, of our village, the Sampson of the Miate- 
rier-Medicker. = Well, de treats fevers aceordine to the 
books + consequence is PF getall the patients: and he says 
to ine one day, says he, * why, said he, * how és it, vou vet 
all the fever cases 2? And I told him exactly low it was: 
and. it 7s so, ‘Well, Doctor, Interrupted one of the Tist- 
eners, * Tow do you treat fevers 27 ¢ Well. there (f(s, you 
see; you ask me how [ treat fevers! If vou had asked 
me when | first) commenced practizing lL wih) Thal ah 
you; cant tell you mow. [treat cases just as 1 find “em, 
according to comin sense. And there ots 2 now there 
was Mrs, Seurrme: she was taken sick: all the folks said 
she liad the COUSUM STON t had two doctors te Ire: did't 
do drer asingle mossel oo wood. They sent tor we. Well, 
as | went into the house, Psee a dot oo” tanzy and a flock 
of chickens by the door: felt’ her pulse t says Bo le 
Sevi1t.e, vou ah no more vot the consti pion than Pye 
Sotit, Twoweeks, an’ Il enred her}’* Well. decor, iio 


didi vou eure ber?’  *dfow did I curve her®- Wier oh xs 


a@in) To teid vou | see a lot of tanzy and a thoele of 


1): : ie ee pt. ee a 
dickens crowine at the door I] efn her seine of tin 
tangy and a firesh-laid coe bretohh her anol age 2 ie 
he Ov case wie Taek / In tet. TL atl mm peer a ee 


My saddle-bags is my soldiers. and miy disease oy ininy, 


NOP DION NAGN dy oil ae Deter as Se 95 


Trash at him; and ‘ither he or me has got to conquer. | 


never give int? 


‘My cGyar was out: and while lighting another, the 


a 


doctor vanished: possibly hastened by the intiuence of 


a 


one of his own prescriptions, 


We always associate, and at once, with NapoLroy’s 
name, the dreadful scenes presented by Ins deserted battle- 
fields; such for an example as marked the sameuinary con- 
tests of lis Russian enmyxugn. Llere is a sketch of one, 
from the pen of an eve witness: $The battle-tield pre- 
sented a terrible picture of rin and carnage, especially on 
the lett and centre, where the ereatest efferts had been 
made to take, maintain, and retake the redoubts. Corpses 
of the slain, broken arms, dead and dving horses, covered 
every elevation and filed every hollow, aud plainly indi- 
eated the progress of the action. In the front of the re- 
doubts lay the bodies of the Frenchy behind the works, 
showing that they had been carried, ley the Russians, On 
many points the heaps of corpses told where squares of 
infantry had stood. and plainly pomted out the size of the 


closely formed masses, From the relative number of the 


slnin it was enay to perceive that the Tenssians lied sutlered] 
a ‘ 


more than the Frenely! And this is but one of haardreéds 


of similar scenes! Yet, ‘had these poor fellows any quar 


96 Manc Rn ory Gi wp. tae ee 


rel? Busy as the Devil is, not the smallest! Their foe: 
ernors had fallen eut!? Tf one could indulge a ‘erim 
smile” at any thing in relation to Bonaparre. it would he 
at the potential mildfary standard to which he reduced 
every thing, Do you remember his order on the appear 
ance of the Mamelukes in Egypt?) ‘Form square; artillery 
to the angles: asses and savants to the centre > Clinrae- 
teristic 5 but complimentary that, to the ‘heared savant. 1° 


* Asses and savants to the ecntiy 


‘Reaper. did you never encounter a person who was 


always striving. in t! 


Presence of ladies, to jue in “a come 


ye 


pliment’ (as that is called which compliment is none) to 


the ‘fair sex 7? Ts there a greater bore in the infinite region 
of Boredom {Somebody has lately ‘illuminated? spyewl- 


men of fits class. in a pleasant aneédete, A, lady, whe se 


attention lie been trying to foree all the ovetine, ole 


oe oT ee his tre, 
served, im the words of an obl saying, aid with a sleet 
7 1 y 7 tae > , Ps ee 

shudder as from eold. *T feel as if a goose were wallatie 


ever my grave :? the erigin, we may suppose. of the term 
feold-goose-painples Sir Compliment Punter thonelit of 


Rommo's aspiration, Oh! that [ were a olive qinaied en 


1 4. 1] 


be onneht be the Mberesting bid whieh showed walle aiehae 


Ta eh ovine Dar aw, Q7 
the grave of one whom he professed so ardently to admire, 
was a notion which could only have entered a brain like 


lis own. 


Tr was a sad thing just now, in the gay and busy 
Broadway, under a sunny, cloudless sky, with the health- 
ful current of lite coursing joyously in our own veins, to 
relinquish the feverish and wasted hand of a friend at 


Whose door Dratic will call ere long, and walk with him 


through the Dark Valley. ‘I am going, said he, ina 
voice scarcely above a whisper; ‘Iam fast goie; 1 shall 


et 


Jeave all this!” and le turned his elassy eves upward to 
the calm clear heavens, and waved his land toward the 
busy crowds that rolled through the street or pattered with 


9 


hasty steps upon the pave; ‘Ll shall soon leave all this! 
‘Tt is but too true?” thought we, as we turned to watch 


his slowly-reeeding footsteps t 


aS NOTA Tey Ol ee eI bee 
The ali-heholding sun shall see no more 
In all his course; nor yet in the cold ground, 
Where thy pate form was laid, with many tears, 
Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist 


Dine janetc.” 


May tie Ine atdeto say with jor when the Last M 
sehiver shall await lis departure, ‘Come Dear to this 
frail, filing, dvine body! come the immortal [te !? 


=) 


98 Pers? cox -KosoAv ei 


SraxpixG with a friend the other day by the river-side, 
to take in the noble coup Peed? of the new steamer KwrcK- 
ERBOCKER, we overheard a little anecdote connected with 
water-cratt, Which made our companion merry all the way 
home; which we shall here transeribe; ‘aud which it is 
hoped may please” *It seems there was’ (nay, we kuow 
not seems, there was) a verdant youth from the interlor of 
Connecticut, for the first time on board a steamboat. Ths 
curiosity was unbounded. Te exsaained here, and he 
scrutinized there: he wormed from the eneineer a compl: 
sory lecture on the stemn engine said mechies in general, 
and from the fireman an essay on the power of white heat. 
and the average consumption of pine cord ood’ At 
Jeneth his inquiring mind was checked in its investigations, 


and * the pursuit of knowledee under dithenlties ” minde at 


once apparent. Te had mounted to the wheel-house, and 
was asking the pilot: * What you dom’ that for, Mister ?— 
what good? does “t do? when he was observed by the cap- 
tain, who said. in a gruff voice: + (ro away from there! 
Don't vou see the sign, * No talkin’ to the man at the hel- 
lum?* Go ’wayi* ‘Oh! certing—vites; Tonly wanted 
to know —— * Well, vou do know mew that vou eant 


tobe eo hinis <0 oo “iaged With unwille williieness, 
the verdant vouth CAG down ‘ and, as it Wait Staoii clark, 


le presently went. below: but four or five times before he 


AG VIS aR man NG he (Sen Oe, 99 


‘turned in” he was on deck, and near the wheel-house, 
eyeing it with a thoughtful curiosity ; but with the cape 
tain’s pubhe rebut sul in dus ears, venturing to ask no 
qUesuous, In the first gray of the dawn, he was up, aid 
on deck; and atter some hesitation, perceiving nobody 
near but the pilot, who was turning the wheel, as when he 
had dast seen lim, he preferred his ‘suppressed question? 
m the oblique style peculiar to his region: * Wal, voin’ it 
yet hha?—Deen at it all might ?—a-serefiein on her up ? 
eh?? What vague conjectures must have bothered the 
poor querist’s brain, during the might, may be partly in- 
ferred from the absurd but ‘settled conviction? to which 


he had at leneth arrived ! 


“A Temperance Story? relies mainly for its * fun, which 
the Editor seems to enjoy, upon an ancient Joserics 
Mittenies. The collateral anecdote, however, toward its 
close, Is not so much amiss. Two vouug men, ‘with a 
humining in thei heads, retire late at wight to their room 
ina crowded inn; in which, as they enter, are revealed 
two beds: but the wind extinguishiny the Heht, they both, 
instead of taking, as they supposed, a bed aplece, get back- 
to-back into owe bed, which beeis to sink under them, 
and come around at intervals, in a manner very cireumame 


bient, but quite tmapossible of explication. Presently ene 
| | ) 


100 Comrort or Conon? tinge, 

observes to the other: + Tsay, Tom, somebody's in my bed. 
‘Ts there @ says the other: *so there is in mine, d == n him ?? 
Lev’s kiek *em out! The vert remark was: “Tom, Pye 
kieked wy inan overboard.’ * Good 17 says its fellow-toper 4 
better luck than Dy my man has kicked ae out —d—d 
if he has mt—rieht on the floor!’ Their ‘relative post 


lions were not apparent until the next morning. 


Tiere is a wood deal of comfort in Coimnan Things. 
Isat there, thoneh 2? Just rane the sanetum-bell for Kavery 
to come up and bring us a shee of Dread-and-buttern, Tt 
is atter twelve o'clock of a rainy October night; for we 
are closing the November number, and our selfimposed 
‘stent? is to oet all through before we oo to-hbed. When 
we take a tstent, we doit We used te, when hoeine po- 
tatees. cutting stalks! pulling flax. aud huskine corn in 
‘the kedntry’ and we ean do it yet. Well) Worry did wt 
comet she had retired to *the arms of Murpiy. So we 


took the lied and wert 


down to the kitehen to lelp Our 
selves, Tt was very clean and meat. A solitary cricket re- 


treated under the range as we entered with our brieht 


; 
‘APEAL LAT fhe white floor was ‘sav 1 weeartis tonal 
i { Z 
(i V de? \ sine } | iy i ! Mh 14 i \ ie 
LHD MOnVes-UGrar, Llow sweet Lhose LNG ROTaeiics 
\ 


smelfad?- And "young iaror’s”? ‘sack’ god ial ses 


Noe ALLO Cie Ae = GN: TENE O Te 101 


pink frock, and the * wee? one’s small stockings, although 
the wearers themselves were rapt in rosy slumbers up stars, 
were not uninhabited, to our eyes, at that moment, though 
they were hanging in the kitchen, We crjoyed those twin- 
slices of bread-and-butter, with two tender, cross-cut, crumb- 
Tite pleces of corned-beef sandwiched between, and 
pickled walnut. Atter all, many of our passing enjoyments 


te tnawde up of trifles like this, Isat itso? 


Wa dowt know when we have laughed more heartily 
than at a sight which we encountered the other day in 
Broudway. A portly female of the Poreme genus, ina 
Hieh state of ‘maternal solicitude, was perrunbulating 
slowly along the street, with three hoops around her ex- 
panded person. Indeed, she seemed thoroughly secured 
aeaiust any accident in the way of explosion, She wis 
indebted doubtless to the hoops by escaping clandestinely 
from some ‘tieht fit? of a barrel into which she had forced 
hersel® in search of provant, aud which did collapsed up- 
ou her person in the Tareenous act. By-the-by, ‘speaking 
of pies, we perceive that an enterprising Yankee is about 
revising some of the WUSTV Aprothewnus of the day, cud veri 
wine therabsardiv, We hes vdready mah? ta wihisile 
out of a pies tail, and has a very Iiumdsome silk purse 
nearly completed for i new-year's present, whieh is fabri- 


eated intinily trom ‘acsow’s eart? 


102 Trig Hare eoar- WRLCIRG ese 


Hie owas an cman oof letters? who wrote the following, 
Tt is a new style of poetry altogether. Mt will Ine seen that 
every. letter of the tinal word mutt be propeunecd as 
thoneh Dinworrt himself presided at the perusal, The 


y constitute: the 


letter or letters in Ttalies will be found t 
rhyme. ‘There is a wood deal more of it, bat this is sate 


. 


Glent to serve as a specimen 


ON e & forth last ni friemd to see. 
Timet aman, by trade s-n-0-) 

[a vonet path bihhis ¥ 

Io! 4 if, hes a ue 2 

Phen thas te him: * Were it wot better fa 
oe le a omtinacne e 


“Twore happter for vour fhinily, 1 cess, 


Than paying off sich wii r-i-g-s ; 
5 te Uh lrsunia =, 'W Wy loenbeti seu mM 
\ u aye heeern! 


Tus following anecdote of the Drke ov Wrrtwerox, 


Pee, " i . na | pres a ‘ 
Whit We OCorve 1fOMm An OMVinlal Source Of Die iets pie 


epeetability, may be relied wo0m as. evtirely anthientie: 


Lor Weinaveros was. dining aba public Ainuer at Pore 


deanx, viveh, to him by the authorities, when le mesa 


Puertue or ali aoa ss, 103 


the fox to his hole at last’ ‘What do you mean ?’ said 


a Ficucrantie. * Naponees has abdieated’  FReeManrie 
| wrered an exchunation of surprise and delight. ‘Tush! 
not 2 word!? said Wettixerons ‘let ’s have our dinner 
eomfortably?” He laid the letter beside him, and went on 
ealmly eating his dinner. When the dinner was over, 
‘There!’ said le to Monsieur Lyyeu, the Mayor of Bor- 
deany,* there “s something will please you.” The mayor east 

liix eve over the letter, and in an instant was on the table 

( announcing the news. The saloon rang with acclamations 
for several minutes. The mayor then begyed leave to give 
zt toast: ‘ Wetirxaroy, the Liberator of France!’ It was 
received with thundering applause. The Spanish consul 
rose, and begged leave to give a toast. It was the same: 
*Weniixaros, the Liberator of Franee!? There was 
another thunder of applause. The Portuguese consul did 
the same, with like effect. The mayor rose again, and 
gave * Werntinaron, the Liberator of Ecropr !? Here the 
applanse was astounding, = Wrrttyarox, who sat all the 
While picking his teeth, now rose, made one of his know- 
ine civil bows to the company round: ‘Jacn,’ said he, 


turning to PReemantie, ‘let's have eotfee. 


Tue * Pioneer Watch” will find none but adinirers. We 


hope to hear often from the writer, Tle will always be 


Lut A ois S boi Dh ae: 


cordially weleomed, Tis sketch of the old aiuie is like 
pictured animal by Park Porier sy and it his deseription 
of the bray ot a jackass is hot perteevon. we entet cone 
ceive of sucha thine: San asthe, carried on by praret vpue 
machinery!” Diekesxs never hit off any thing more teli- 
eitously.  * Speaking of Jack-asses! what a melancholy 
fact that is, which is) recorded hy i Louistinma journal: 
‘While the *imentangentrie was bene extibiterl Tiere. an 
old negro man drove fis eart, which was drown ls sole, 
near the pavilion, with a view of tuking a peen at the ten 
kevs. The mule ind cart were lett: alone whilbe Cate 
amused himself at the *show? When the performace 
was over, the compuuiy commenced percking tp for the ext 
Villnee, and when the CAV ase Was withdrawn, thie elephant 
stool naked just before the tanle, which wave ome sitrrle 


bray, and tell dead it thie leatess. Wohi cunt thepotet thhes 


horror, the intense, the *exeredctating > horror, which must 
have pervaded that poor donkey's losonrt” None Tata 
yacksiss Can Ap prechtte the depth of the emotion conveyed 


by that sonorous brav, with its * dvine tall? 


Lhe the offspring t ap! inan’s re) boyy de is ra aces 


ica) him. “There IL is he as hao he sid Cae Ae \r 


Esch OG a silvers Ko fere vr , 105 


bitterness of early ioves and early friendships. There, 
inavhap., he has stttered ove of those vast berenayements 
Which was like a tearing away of a part of his own soul: 


Frond 


When he thought each noise in the house, hearie noises 
that he never heard before, must be something they were 
doing mm the room—the room—where lay all that was 
mortal of some one inexpressibly dear to him: when he 
wwoke morning after morning to strugele with a grief 
Which seemed as new, as appalling, and as large as on the 
first day ; which indeed, being part of himself) and thus 
partaking of lis renovated powers, rose equipped with 
what rest or alacrity sleep had given him; and sank, 
unconquered, only when be was too wearted in body and 


mind to attend to it, or to any thine? 


‘Love always remarked says that profound observer, 
Mr Ciawis Yenrowenesity that when you see a wife a- 
takin’ on airs onto herself, a-scoldink, and internally a- 
talkin’ about + her dignity and ‘her branch that the jus 
band is inwartably a spoon? AC friend of ours says that 
he owas reminded of this save remark the other aight, in 
coming down the Hindson, AX large, fat, pompots worn 
Who was ever and som overlooking tier husband. Gu thin, 
lank persone, with a baby in his arms, who eshibicod 
every neerk of prolonged anmoyanes) in reply toon siecl. 


ye 


106 SONNE See ERS, 


complaint on his part of fatigue, and) the expression of a 
Wish that the nurse might very soon vet over her seasick- 
hess, sic ¢ 

‘To never saw aman conduct so before —never on the 
freee the wlobéd arth > Tf Td li known that vom was 
woin’ to aet in thes way, Loeertarnty would it ha petelied 
you 

The gentleman strutway sang the *Lay of the tHen- 
pecked? to the erving baby. and from that time forth. wats 


aS NIM AS AN OFSter, 


‘Byron says. ina letter to Moores? Lo never wrote Tut 
one sotmet before, and third was not in earnest. and imeary 
years ge. as an erercese } and I will never write another, 
They are the amost puling, petrifving, stupidly platonie 
compositions. “Po which fo subseribe, 1 do net mean to 
suv that good sonnets have net been written,  Phave seen 
such: it is the xehoo? that is bad. They are hike Flemish 
pictires, oroas the yranter std oof the sardines, + Leffle 
fishes don in ol? Butas | have been reqiiested tO write 
aosennet, Pwill not refuse vou, vet Pant sure Lwould not 
do so again even for a drend +: that asa fiend for whom I 
eed an oespectal regard t sommetecring is too dee amiatter : 


the better deme, the worse? and [ think. walt Diermver 


Davia ites ube ae AaeOnOr be REIN 107 


‘Warek-WKnacks, vou may have consent thereto, thinking 


thictt 2 may do some vood 2 


‘A sonNeET 2° well, if its within my ken, 
Ill write one with amoral. When a boy, 
One Christinas morn [ went to buy a toy, 
Or rather we: Land my brother Bey: 
But so it chanced that day I had but ten 
Cents in my fist, but as we walked, ‘Be goy- 
Blamed if we did n't meet one Pat MeCoy, 
An Irishman, one of my father’s men, 
Who four more gave, which made fourteen together. 
Just then I spied, in a most unlucky minute, 
A pretty poeket-wallet; like a feather, 
My money buys it, Ben began to grin it: 
‘You ‘re smart, says he; ‘you ‘ve got a heap of leather, 


But where's their cents you wanted to put ti it ?? 


Jesv been reading, and with no sinall interest, * atv 
Listorieal Discourse, aiving the history ef the little town 
of our nativity, the place where * Aunt Lucy's twins’? were 
baptized. ‘The names and Iustories of all the pastors, from 
the earliest settlement of the place to the present period, 
are given y amd as we read them, how many pictures trom 
the tdark backward aud abysin of time? arose to view 
Parson Wo——, for exainple, how well we remetiber hin! 
“A man severe he was, and stern vo view! but a @ood wis 
at heart. no doubt. We reeolleet him so far beck as the 


time when our childish fancy was, that when he got up to 


LOs 192-350 th ow ek hi Oe DS DEAS 


speak, he * took his text? out of a small bex under. the 
pulpit-cushion : we forget now what we then thought the 
Tert? was: but we once saw something like what we re- 
membered fora dim inmoment to have thowght it. in a toy- 
store on Cliristimis-eve, some veurs ago! We were alwiys 
afraid of Parson Wo——, ‘we boys y and inany and mins 
atime have we gone and hid when he approached the 
house. Religion was a ‘dreadful thing’ in those days. 
Cheertulness Was tiabooed ‘ and ral solemn Vise ened al cold 
demeanor were the outward amd visible siens of lewine 
‘obtained a eye? A commion * professor” was net to he 
encountered without emotion, but * the qiinister’ ali in 
black, was a terrtble buo-benr! We used to resnrd dime 
as ‘an officer of the divine law? in innel the sine helt 
In Which police-ollicers are viewed by the suspicious delin- 
quent. But Parson W—— is gone: and we cannot but 
felteitate ourself) for one, that we ‘did what was melt? iv 
our attendance upon lis ministrations, Plow amy hun 
dreds of times, wrapped up in sweet-seented diay. in the 
bottom ofa sleirl, did We rile throush the how Liye WIT 


ter storm. to sitoin that old chareh. with mothine bait the 


mtternal foot-stove and the prevalent * fire of devetion” te 
Keep us from. pershing; sea, even to the division ~sis 
teenthly. and the *uiproving” * Henee we lew. me view 
of our sultect in the next and das? place? ere, Ty aa. 


mer there was a pealof water with a tieperrinwer by the 


Drv os, 20 Gorone sian 109 


door; so that we could quench any thirst that might arise 
‘from: the heat of the weather or the drought of the dis- 
course ¢ but wieter-service, and rehearsals in that compre- 
hensive body of divinity, the * Westminister Shorter Cate- 
chisin, ( Shorter catechisin” and ‘nothin’ shorter 7) these 
were tvo much) There was relief only in eating our Sun- 
day * turp-overs “and mut-cakes-and-cheese at the neighbors’ 


at noon-times, with faces Glowing betore the Iitgh-piled 


" 
wood fires, Also it was extremely pleasant to go home 
with the prettiest girls trom the evening confercuee-mect- 
ings held at the school-house. Ah, well-a-day ) we seo in 
the notes to this discourse the names given, and the tri- 
umphant deaths recorded, of those who were once near and 
dear teas; and chief among them, that near relative, 
Whose silver lair and mild benevolent blue eves are betore 
us of vore, THe it was who was wont to go around his 
pleasant orchards, fall of all manner of fruits, aud select 
the choleest Varieties for the little boys, never so happy 
himself as when eneaved in making others so. Ufis last 
ere] was peaee. OA Tittle while before his death, he called 
his sen to his bedside, to write down tis last reqnest. 
Bring vor table close to the ded. sidd des * Power te 


aie Vane write. hes Woe (NiGinyaer 3 a ns ime eucaes Rate aves 


Sa, Wii Seale ae NG Ra eeehe! tee SSS TES Less 


will amd testament 2 Towill ainseif fieloaiey dear ehtdten. 


and my erudelibdren wd then posterity. to Grou the ba. 


110 DES wets “hee wer ae 


THER, SoN aud Tfory Sere, through time, praying that 
the blessing of Crop may rest upon them. Now lift me 
ap. and det me sign that’ Tle was raised, and his hand 
tretubling with age was guided as le wrote tor the last 
tine lis own name. As he lay down, he said, * My work 
is now done, and Tam ready to go home. My wiy is 
clear, T know where Lam going?’ A little wlile after 
this, as the sun was going down, at his request he was 
raised up in bed: «All seems natural out there,’ said he, 
looking out upon his beautiful acres: ‘just as it used to 
look. Tt is very pleasant; but T care nothing for it now ; 
Tan goings said he, pointing toward heaven, ‘Tam going 
up there — Tam voing home!’ And a litde while after, 


the good man fell asleep in Jesus. 


= 


BUM BER LVR: 


2 SN Gre EAN: DENTON TEED 2 AN LGR ELE TASNP ROUND SEN 7 WEA GE 
“COMPLAINANTS 92 GROGRAPINCAL DiS8ORDERS? SPURSUTY OF KNOWLEDGE 
VSG OIF EICUMTS 3) SEORIING A SRW CLAS GTA@ES DEA “IS TILE 
SCHOOL*ROOM 2 CONUNDRUM —*PORCED CONSTRUCTION! A CENTURY = 
SIE ASS ANE PRESINE To A DERIOGS: -DINS HIS DLRASSPOEY QA USE AND 
EFFECTS A BOOKSELLER AT CAMP-*MEETING 1 TRUE VALUE OF MONKEY — 
*NOTE-LIFTING f THE CATCHURR CACGHT—AN AUTHENTIC RECORD SEE= 
NG OPESERVES AS“ OPITERS “SEE IS. TARNIS, AND: TG PRIENGHALAN < 
AUTUMNAL FAREWELL TO DOBB'S FERRY. 


() UR present theme is certainly a pot very savory subject 5 
but the untimely mistortuue described in such untmine- 
ing Auglo-Saxon by a correspondent, tempts us to reeord 
a stinilar accident which we recently heard depicted by a 
friend, a French gentleman, whose unostentatious but prince- 
ly hospitality adds (what one could hardly deem possible) 
even anew charm and grace to the lovely banks of the St. 
Lawrence, alone the most delightful reach of that resplen- 
dent streant. ‘It ees twanty year,”. said he, ‘since zat I 
was in New-Yo'k; and [eo up one wight in 2 upper part 
de cine, Ct was *most in de contree,) to see a fraande, Alt 
oul) Ween EP com? by de door-vird, T see sonm’sine -— 


not know what he ces, but 1 soucht tre was lectil rabeet 3 


his Asx VA er BE apa. JOS apart eae ee 


ae 


but he was ver fae. T go up softly to heem ss Abe ha! 
[say to myself. Las” wots yout * So 1 strike hin big 
stroke vis my ombrel on dius necks, | Ah. hat sup "pose 
wathe dol Bach!!! Westrike me back in dy tice 


wis his Dann! I cannot tell: it was carfuls? 


DREADEULS ) He s-m-e-l-l so vou cannot foweh tim — and 
Ide sate? T srow myself in de pond, ap te my necks ¢ 
butit make no use. [ s-m-e-l-l seer wee-eck [Tot like eo 


= 


in ze room wis my frannde. LT dig big hole to put mv 


cloves in de crounde: it net cure zeml [dig gem oupt 
bah!—it is de satane tT put zeme back — and dey smell 
one -vear: till zew ret in de ground. LE. 668 RUS 


And so it ares a thet: for no oman bern of worn cote 
ever counterfelt the ferver of disgust which distineuished 


the oraphic delineation of that sud mishap. 


Wer heard a pleaswit dlustration, am evening or two 
ave, Of a peeuliariny of western life. AC aman in one of 
the hotels of a sonth-western city was observed by a morth- 

) ) i i 
ermer to be very moody, and to regard the stranger with 
looks particularity sackaned as our informant thought, some: 
What savage.  byeued-by he approached: tain, same said: 
‘Cay | see vou opteide the dooy for a few (nme = 


*Certamly. Sir? said the northerner, but not without sone 


miserwings, The moment the door bal closial 


Wa velar “COAT e Ne hoes oc 113 


them, the moody man renehed over his hand between lis 
shoulders and drew from a pocket a tremendous bowie- 
knife, biecer than a French carver. and as its broad blade 
Hashed in the moon-light, the stranger thought lis time 
levlvcome, “Put wp your sevthe, said-he.* and tell tie 
Wheee [ “ve done to provoke your hostility 27 ‘Done, 
stranger f-—you have wt done any thing. Nor [haat 
any hostility to vous but LT want to pawn this knife with 
vou, Tt cost me twenty dollars in New-Orleans. 7 Jost 


3 
t 


mv Whole * pile? at Sold sledge? coming down the river, 
aud Phawt got ared cent. Lend me ten dollars on it, 
stranger, TTL win ait back for vou in Jess than an hour? 
The money was loaned: and sure enough, in less than the 
time mentioned the knife was redeemed, and the incorri- 
wibie *sporting-anan” had a surplus of some thirty dollars, 


which he probably lost the very weet hour. 


‘Wor a perfectly horrible day this is says veur 
compluiine, querulous citizen, as he wipes the perspira- 
Men Trim das wlowime faeces ' 1 ditex? snely weatl 
Dear Si von should it sey sos the rivers of water whieh 


rian iw wet aii te Olea pence ta a Jaw of meatier 
thet preserves wour health,  Morcover the heat ot whteh 
yeu complain is ripening the * kindly fruits of the esarih. 


that tn due time we may enjoy them. Nature ts wet 


114 GEOORAPRLGAD Drea bwes 


tiny ready to publish her * cereals, and her timely heat is 
swelling inte pulpy lusctousness the vreat clusters of Tsa- 
bellt-vrapes, which shut in the parlor-piazza, darken the 
windows of our sleeping-room in the second story, screen 
these of the nursery in the third from the sun, and aectu- 
ally hang, in all forms of grace, trom the very eaves: 
Also the vari-colored pluks, verbenas, helotropes. diliinis, 
anda darve fanuly of nameless flowers, are sheddine then 
beautiful hues and perfume between the * house-vine” aud 
the *back-vine, which creeps over its. brond treliice, sid 
suspends there, iu long pendulous * bunches? its rich 
abundance of fruit. Yes: and every day as we look ont 
at these things, we see the yreen ivy visibly growin over 
the pinnacles of the towers of our * Church of St. Peren 

in the rear—a beantifal and graceful sieht. 

PS. Jt 2s a pretty hot day, thengh, “thats tay hig 
Must vo and take at shower” in the adjoining bath-rootm, 
Pieugh! Theis kind of heat can’t ripen any thing, un- 
less at blast-furnace’ will do the same thing. It ex * hor 


) ' 


rible* hot weather! 


We reanarked a very laughable typographical error in 
anewspaperaday or two sines, It wasin a paragraph 
Which tunowneed that oa formerly distinguished southern 


polinenin had) been strne k with apeplexy, savl Ted * Tost 


1 


the use of one sede of has speech Tt reminded us of 1] 


bie? 


Pag Reb a sO NG Nae foley 


man Who, having stood in the same place ina cotton fae- 
tory for many yeurs, was one day detained by illness, and 
Wrote to lis cmplover that he should be unable to resume 
his labor, as he had a painful swelling on the east side of 


> 


his tace! 


Noriine is more characteristic of your true French- 
Hi thea his irrepressible curiosity, which he will often 
eratify: at the expelse of danger, and sometimes at the 
risk of his life. In matters of science, by the way, this 
peculiarity of the Serand nation’ has been of gréat service 
toanankind. A friend relates a story pleasantly dlustra- 
tive of this insatiable national impulse. A young Parisian 
lawyer, accustomed only to French breakfasts, arrived ia 
the morning at Dover on his way to London, was surprised 
to find a robust Joux Burp seated at a small side-table, 
loaded with ineats and their accompaniments. Te sur- 
veved him attentively for a moment or two, and then be- 
van to soliloguize in an Sundress rehearsal? of the sparse 
nelish at dis command: *Mon Direc !? said lie, * can it 


1 


be posseeble zat cet ventil-homme is cte lees brekfaste ! 


‘ma 


Nevare minds: TL shall, Tsink 1 shall ax’ heem. ¢ Mon- 
Sieur! Tam stranger, Vill you av ze politesse to tell me 
wezzer zat is your brekfiste or your dinna wat vou eat 0" 
Joun rises with indienation, dus cheeks distended with a 


Three portion of Tis substantial ment and is about to resent 


116 POSIT ois UE Soames 


What le deems an ailront ¢ but discretion gets the better of 
valor, and die sits down aeain to resume tis meal The 
Frenchman paces the floor dubiously for some minutes, 
until lias enhanced curiesity overcomes his temporary 
timidity. When he again aecosts the sharpeset son of * per 
fidious Albion: *Sare if vou knew de reezon wheretor | 
rek-quire for Kuow wezzer zat is your brekfaste or yea 
dinna wat verete, yeu would Jay ze politesse to ted tn: 
fomediate, and sans etfence.  Jomsx was stlenmt. as bellre. 
but luis face actully elower with eXcitement atic sili 
pressed passion, All these evidences of displenstre hew 
ever Were lost upon the curious traveller, who olee nore 


| 


+ 
uy 


tiddressed dis sunwilline witness” and this time tardy 
brought him te the use ot his speech: tor die rose in eret 
aneer, accused the Freneliman of having insnlted dime: a 
blow followed. and a duel was the ‘net purport and up- 
shot’ of the athar,  Thel the Frenchman's curiosity been 


! 


satistied, lie world deaditless have been mere stendy-land- 
ed? *but Destiny had willed it otherwise? Buns Wallet 
pierced hina, and ithe wot WAS decided lo he rortal, 
Enelistinen are seldom: ilteripered por a fill stetmstede : 
eur diero relented + be was filled with remerse at laving 
} ] , ah eae ek hus : ian 
shot the poor fellow on so silit POV CHATS aneh. Was 
aiiws Maniuke ameuds, for lie fhe fhe aie 


etid le tothe vine wian. ‘ih orieves tom indeele PHA | 


should have been so rash as to lose mia 


NOD NEE: eae SN) ip Renny To Gy 


fling a matter: and if there is any way in which F can 
serve Vou, pest assured vou have only to name it, and 
will trithtully perform your Inst request.” ¢ Med? vou, my 
fren’? Zen? said his victim, writhing in the avontes of 
death. if vou will be so howd as tell ime wezzer zat was 
yor hyikpuste or uour dinna wat you ete, T shall die ver’ 
mosh wtent 

Spreakixe of Frenchmen: A fend of ours records 
one out of a thousand instances, of daily occurrence : 
o, at one of our 


‘Come here, Gus-son, said a vouny toplin 
metropolitan eating-houses, A walter presented himself 
‘Your mame is wt Gas-sor. is it, Stupid? DT called * Gas- 
son, vouder’—and he Teckoned toa lad, whom he had 
heard entled Carceon, the day before, to do lis biddiner t 
We have often laughed at the story of a person of pleas- 
ine address and appearance, who was encountered on board 
asteaepacket from Dover to Calais. Pt was observed, 
that whenever he obtained an auditor, be would address 
him courteoushy amd commence a discussion of the quali- 
ties of two currivges which were ou the forward deck. 
Shek Vere Tae eoaclig Satd thee és a nice “ain? hut them 


Tore Scratelies cay the Gab, them’s the vorst ort. th 


A @ettietven. who lard these course reniarks- thrice re- 


peated to diferent individtals Twa person of plensineg and 


eentlemntiike exterior, liad the euriosity to Inquire ob ole 


118 Deagrn in tHe BS cirooi- Room. 


who seemed to be a companion voyager, why it should 
happen that his language was so strangely out of keeping 
with his general bearing ; when lo! it transpired that he 
was a Parisian, sporting the little English he had lenrned 
of a cockney valet, in a brief stay in London, before his 
countrymen. Many an ‘ignorant ramus’ on this side the 
water makes himself equally ridiculous, in misapplving 
and misprononncing the language of this ambitious Gant, 
speaking it like the man whom Marrirews describes, who 
boasted of his perfection in French, but gave the credit, to 
its felicitous acquisition ; he ‘Varnt it of a Garman, that 


Varnt it of a Scotchman at Dunkirk !’ 


On Heavens! how many bereaved hearts are bleeding 
at this very hour in this city: hearts made desolate in a 
single moment! Fifty children, studving at one instant 
in the hushed school-room, and the next in eternity! Sit- 
ting here to-night, with our dear ones about us, we sheil- 
der with horror while we glow with gratitude to the he- 
nevolent Berya who has ‘preserved them hitherto? What 
asad scene will be the schoolroom where these departed 
sufferers were wont daily to meet! Their fellow-pupils 
and play-mates will sing, in words that ‘Young Ksick,’ 
has just been repeating to his little sister: 


‘On where, tell me where have the little children gone? 


Oh where. tell me where have the little children gone ¥ 


‘Forcepv ConstructTion.’ 119 


They once were sitting here with us, 
They sang and spoke and smiled, 
And they loved to meet us thus, 


But they “ve left us now, my child, 


‘Oh where, tell me where have the little children gone? 
Oh where, tell me where have the little children gone? 
T seem to see their sparkling eyes, 
IT seem to hear their song; 
But we'll never sce them more 


In the school where we belong!” 


Beanp, the distinguished western artist, mentions the 
delivery of a conundrum which he once heard in this state. 
A tall, red-haired, ‘serio-dubious’ sort of over-grown boy, 
who was ‘designed for the ministry, and had just obtained 
his ‘parchment’ from an eastern college, was called upen, 
at a puting supper, to ‘make a speech.” He excused him- 
self by saying, ‘I dont know any speech that I can say 
nedw. Tle was asked fora song. ‘No, he never could 
sing; fedund that out when he first went to singin’-school? 
However, being hard pressed for ‘something,’ he said, look- 
ing at and twisting bashfully lis long freckled fingers, ‘I 


hes) 


ean tell a conundrum that I made myself last week. It 
come to me first one night when [was abed, and [ made 
it out next day, and wrote it down on a piece of paper. I 
got it here neéw? So saving, he took from his waistcoat- 
pocket a slip of paper, and read: ‘ What village in ?York 


State is the same name as the Promised Land?’ There 


120 « Pore py owas haere 


Was some ‘ouessines but at last it was ‘eiven up, and a 
‘solution requested 27 * Canandarane J* at length ox 
potuded the proposer, Dut the company were still as 
much in the dark as ever: * Canandaigua!” exclaimed a 
dozen ina breath » * why—how — where is there any re- 
semblance to the ‘Promised Land 7? ack Soe aii 
slightest. * Why, you see? said the conundrtun-maker, 
‘this is the way on “tt: vedu must divide the word, and in- 
stead of Can-an you must say * Ca-man and throw the 
‘darqua’? away) Canaan was the * Promised Land? eel’ 
A resistless and united cuffaw fellow this * farem) eon 
structions which the expounder mustook tor adiiitation, 


. 


*Adntit a fwst-rate conundrum {* said be, with a Wisitdle 


chuekle. that only increased the obstreperons eachitimation. 
We should wt like to look at so brieht an intellectual la- 


minary as this, except thromeh a pices of spoked olass, 


Tr omay bey nay doubtless it is, a morbid feline which 
prompts the qneditative mom to pause and look up at the 
successive stones slowly sinking into their restine-places in 
some .public editice dn process of ereetion + thinking the 
“while how lone those inariniate blocks will peneain dor 


and hew many will sage wp at them when the qresenii he 
: 


helder is monlderue wito dust; Sach have aren Geek mn 
} ] ’ 1 ] r 
owh ti ehits in decdet eek Le i | t Diy panics sti die: 


n bude tn this city within the Test fowreen wor 


Ate eee ae ACN Ds Uae Sen eat 


But we have been thinking to-day how (could we but 
know it) the fronts of our earlier edifices would be found 
written all over with kindred thoughts, if they who gazed 
at them could have Jett the impress of their reflections up- 
on the stones which arrested their attention. Zhey are 
gone? vet nature is as gay, the stm shines as bright, men 


are as busy in getting gain, as in the centuries that are 


2 


past. Ah! wellanay the thoughtful man exclaim : 


Were, where are all the birds that sang 
A hundred vears ago ? 
The flowers that all in beauty sprang 
A hundred years ago? 
The lips that smiled, 
The eves that wild 
In flashes shone 
Soft eves upon j 
Where, O where are lips and eves, 
The maiden’s smiles, the lover's sighs, 


That lived so long tio ? 


“Who peopled all the GTEV streets 
AC TIntinirae eis B02 
Who filled the echureli with frees nmicek, 
A handred years ago? 


The sneering tale 


A brothers linrt : 
Where, O where are plots and sne@ers, 
The poor man's hopes, the rich miu’s fears. 


Vhat lived so long wee * 


122 A= Da ecous: Dar aka 


‘Wirvr meat ¢s this? sud a country farmer the other 
day, toa legal frend who had invited him inte a French 
restaurant in the lower part of the city. to take a asty 
dinner with him; ‘what meat és it??) Tt*s beef, T think? 
suid the lawyer. The countryman replied, *[T guess not ; 
do u't taste like beef to mes? and he regarded the sim- 
phibious-looking dish before hime with thoughtful solicl- 
tude. At the next mouthful, he Jaid is knite and fork 
down, and asked with eager curiosity, * Amt this a french 
eatin’-house (7 © Tt isy answered the lawyer. * Then it ¢s 
dow}? he exclaimed, removing the last morsel from tits 
mouth, as a sailor relieves lis Jaws of a tobnccosquid ¢ it 7s 
dowand | thought it wast Lief dow once at “Swego, (Oswe- 
go) in the last waroand T know what itis? Aud althousrh 
it was an excellent resturant at which they were dinine, 


so arent was his prejadice against the French cuisine, that 
he conld wot be persunded to taste another morsel When 
they were walking home te said te his frend 2° My meth 
bor Joxks was down to York onee, and being very fond 
o SASSO Ors, lie went inte an entineshoy bo De, eRe, 
While he was fiearin’ of Cem fry, hissim’ and sputterin’ 
awity. aman Was bivin’ some of Vem raw at the counter, 
and while he was aetyin’ of Vem up.a chap come im with a 
i] 


fuz-eap and a dirty drab *sustootl and Tid) down a Tittle 


bundle at the fur-eend a? the counter, Tle Jooked at the 


snoney ao, but that anakes edeven,) piintin’ tox 
c Dale sihee Hooke at the ss and he 


ous have heard, perhaps, ‘of the direction 
: wk to a traveller * ton w sown this toad, 


Pattie a ae scape TEIG tells us 
rina pidicinieeth are hak Bie at the 


a that at Sia vill es ‘6 si of sia 
the fhe hood horses on toward the next fase 


har 


124. (A. BOORSERE BR av Citare = oie sie. 


up. Tle is a member of the Methodist Church ¢ and being 
at a cunp-meetinug near Sine-Sine, last: sumaner. hie Tied 
the mistortune, after two or three days’ and miehts’ attend 
ance, to fall asleep in the uudst of a powerful sermon. — Tr 
was just after the New-York Trade-Sale of books, and Mr, 
Bercess was dreaming thereof: and to the searching 
questionings of the speaker, * Will vou any longer delay /— 
will you not choose to-day whom you are te serve f— what 
eourse vou are to take?’ 6 Teke the lot! — the hataves 
fo Buraess, Stringer and Compony 2 exclatued Durcess 
eagerly, as he awoke, and stared wildly around him, when 
he saw every body staring still more wildly at him, and 


the minister himself petrified with amazement ! 


THe ‘competence’ of the uller of the soil, the ‘abnn- 
dance’ of the sucecessttd mechanie, and the * tears eee 
the tradesman, we conceive to be better calculated to pro: 
mote happiness than ‘erent wealth? even when unenetumn- 
bered. We are not insenstble to the valtte of money, Our 
remark was pointed as to the wants that wealth brines 
but the eares of it are not less exacting. * Dent yeti 
know Tee Bl A western mallior sure, oon ulbed the Cr 
sis, toa drend of ours. with whom be had formerly been 
intimately acquainted; *dowt vou remeber ine? My 


; P ties f 
namie 1s Paty *Croodl heavens } i Can T ay {RSE GN 


Reeth Na ee fet tei Sma T NT IC ng Ra 


elhumed our friend; * why, what ham wromeht such a 
chauge In your appearaice £ Where’s your iotirishine 


head of hair? where ’s your flesh gone’ what’. put that 
Lend in your back ?? *The times! the times!” replied the 
poor ric mauy? fas foray back, D broke that last veur, 
liptiny notes SoS Oune of them were Very Leavy 3K whey 
eus and unnecessary burden no doubt they were: and how 
much better was the rich man’s ‘wealth, with its carkine 


cares, than the ‘abundance’ of the contented mechanuie 7 


Time following amusing adventure, given by a corre- 
spondent writing from Butfilo, actually took place in the 
tov of M——, in Olio, two years ago. * Parmer —— 
lind two danghters. very interesting young jadies, vet in 
their teens. who were quite romantic in their notions, “The 
father was an aristucratic member of the Baptist church, 
and of course was very particular as to the * company? his 


1 


iis should ‘keep! Now it happened that the-c two 


i 


pretty ails became acquainted with a couple of young 
bucks, clerks nan adjoining village, and, to use a common 
phrase, * took quite t shyvin’ to wae Yo this the old) cen- 
Ueinal Was very inueh opposed, as he tutended to match 
ction Indies: Isat Cb was th ws’ talkie te 
thet: While week after week wore away, and found the 


young men Constant visitors, At leneth, in order to en- 


126. THe Catonnr Cavenr: 


force obedienee, the old man found himself driven to the 
necessity of locking up the foolish children who had pre- 
sumed without his consent to fallin love with a couple of 
poor tradesmen, The sweet girls were accordingly con- 
fined on Sunday afternoons in the back bed-room in the 
second story, which fronted the barn-yard 3 a very roman- 
tic ‘look-out’ Under the window was a pile of stones, 
which had been left after repairing the cellar-wall in that 
corner. For two or three successive Sabbath evenings, the 
usual period of visiting their inamoratas, the lovers had 
climbed, by means of the sheets of the bed, which were Tet 
down from the window by the heroig girls, up to the 
apartinent of their imprisoned lovers, and from nighttall 
until rosy morning did reyel in the Sambrosuil delight of 
love's young dreams. But this clandestine courtship 
could not be continued without being at last discovered. 
One lovely Sabbath, just at twihght, the father, coming in 
from the barn, thought he saw something rather ominous 
hanging out of the back-window y so he walked noiselessty 
around to ascertain the Snature”’ of it. There hune the 
fatal ‘flag of surrender,’ and the old man, giving ita 
slight jerk, commenced the ascent. Ile was lifted gently 
from off lis feet, and felt Iamself vradually ‘rising in the 
world” Twas avery heavy weight, the  danehiters 
thoueht: and to tell the trath. it was a corpulent ‘body 


corporate” at which they were hopefully tiecine away, 


Sieine  OvrsEnruvres. Loy 


3ut lo! is head had reached the window-sill; and now, 
justas his old white hat appeared above the window, his 
affectionate daughters * dropped him like a hot potato :? 
and, with something like the ‘emphasis of a squashed 
apple-dumpling” the old man came in instant contact with 
mother Earth ; while the two knights of tape-and-scissors, 
who were not far off, enjoying the scene, ‘made hasty 
tracks from the settlement, leaving nothing behind them 
but bodily misery, horror-stricken damsels, and their own 


coat-tails streaming on the cool night-air!’ 


A roe lay over the broad expanse of the Tappadn- 
Zee, at Doss his Ferry, the other morning. There is a 
small but very long-eared donkey at that place, the Buce- 
phalus of a juvenile play-mate of ‘Young Ksick.,’ whom 


> 


also our scion backs whenever so minded. The little ani- 
mal is very strong, and ‘carries weight for ages’ so we 
mounted him, on the foggy morning aforesaid, and rode to 
the water's edge, looking into the mist, which hid the far- 
ther shore from sight. Sir Josuva Reysotps, in one of 
his lectures, savs that the horizon-line of the ‘great and 
wide sea, in mid-deep, is one of the most striking emblems 
of the infinite and the eternal to be found in all the works 
of the Anmiciay. We thought of this while looking otf 


upon the dim (and at the time boundless) waste of waters 


ie ade 3 


before us; and then came the thought of NApoLeon at 
Saint Helena, musing by the solemn shore of the vast 
ocean Which formed the watery walls of his islind-prison : 
and so strong was the Jast impression, that, mounted as we 
were, we began to feel, in that moment of deep reverie, 
that we were Navo.eos, taking our equestrian exercise of 


a morning, and looking off upon the sexy when all at 
once, an oumtnistakable juvenile voice, that is usually 
‘music to our ears, let down the peg? that held up our 
mnusings, with the untimely, and we aay add unealled-for 
remark, accompanied by a loud Taueh, that was strely un- 
necessary if uot uubecomine: ‘Tf there is wt aren on 
Duxkry!—how he looks! Our iinaginary Navoiros 
vanished as quickly at this interruption as did) Paauer’s 
father’s ghost when he tsmelt the momiung airs” and we 
saw ourselves as others saw uss" oa biped. clad im a thin 
linen coat, broad-branined Rocky-mountaiu fur hat, (a 
present from? Brrtacoses. now of that dik seated on an 
ass, aud oa little one at that) As we turned him: to eo 
back, diaving ‘satisted the sentiment, dis saddle turned 
too, and we tell to the ground, a distance, perhaps, from 


tec tye feat. No bones were 


the lop of his lel, 


broken: but aye didowt dike the repert of the wulmpertiant 


eirernmatance whieh * Youne Wswicky’ bere to jis. avovher: 


‘Page pot threw tim Duxgert? «7am 2 = ti 


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wood style of grammar to be used by the sou of an Eprront 


a? 


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PAR Wilson. IPatie IR RoE NC MAAN 129 


All this may seem ridiculous : but why might we not have 
fancied ourself NApoLeoN, amidst the kindred outward 
accessories of lis last position? Supposing our dress and 
steed were not warlike? Is it the uniform that makes the 


captain? If itis, we should like to know it! ‘ 


We heard the other afternoon, from a proved racon- 
teur, Who has no rival, either orally or with pen in hand, 
a story of Jarvis’s, the distinguished painter, which made 
us quite ‘elastic’ for half a day. A> mereurial yet misan- 
thropic Frenchman, who, to ‘save himself from himself, 
used often to call upon Jarvis, had an ‘Old Master, a 
wretched daub, whose greatest merit was its obscurity. 
Being ignorant of the hoax which had been played upon 
him in its purchase, he set a great value upon it, and in- 
vited Jarvis to come to his room and examinéit. Jarvis 
did so; and to prevent giving its possessor pain, he avoid- 
ed the expression of an opinion ‘upon the merits,’ but ad- 
vise the owner to have it cleaned ; it being ‘so dirty that 
one might easily mistake it for a very ordinary painting.’ 
Some four or five days afterward the Frenehman called 
upon the painter; and the moment he entered his apart- 
ment, he exclaimed: ‘Ah! Monsieur Janvees, I ‘ave 
some’xing to tell you! My graand picture is des-troy’ ! — 


b) 


no wors’ a d 


nany more! I get ze man to clean 


o* 


130 Per ew ena ro Dotnts Pera 


him: ver good: he wash him all out wis de turpentine! 
Alt ait IT could only eateh lim!—I would kick hin 
prle-n-tea /* + Weavens!” exclaimed Jarvis: ‘can it be 
possible that that great picture is spodkd? You must 
have been in a towering passion when it came home in 
that condition.” ‘No, no, Monsieur” replied the French- 
man, ina dachrymoese, pittul tone; ‘Tam net strone man 
tw be anery —I1 was s--e-r /? 


oe 


Ii is Ohe of those wart, low-clowdy, fime-runy dave of 
late Oeteber. Young Kytek.an heur age. in a erissy 


ravine of a lullside wrove, now almost bexveft of Ws sun 


mer honors, helped us to brush toeether a thick Ted of 
faded leaves: aud. on that frawrant couch we have been 
ving, looking off thromgh the thin blae drizzle upon the 


dving woods over the Tanwatin Zee. amd the pritehes af 


fall-wheat. of matchless creen, that edoe them, toward the 
bd ) 6 *. } % 7.2 2 ty 1 
river. Returning, after much pleasant chit-elyat wih the 


aoe th : : H ‘ is ef Ps Dass $a OI 

little Junior, we find s pacquet of letters and communnina- 

tions from town (to which we did wot resair to-day) apen 
ale 


our tables and la! the first ona we open zs what TIArteer 


terms 


Our esteemed COrres peu has certain v tenteliee! wis cot 


I ig Gctcaner Ieuly The Aree |OUCHIE) Lie om. are Ine Gee Loy 


this moment in a tender point. Ile expresses our senti- 
ments exactly : 
“Tis well at times to mope and sigh, 


If one can give cood reason why; 


Joen change of scene may cause (who knows 


A tear to trickle down one’s nose: 


itis Weak to sob— 


Yet tuust [ weep to heave dear Doss, 


‘October's Waling winds are here, 
 picd. ane meadows sere; 


Its fol 


Gorgeous, with ull its bravery on, 


Crisping with frosty breath the lawn, 


summer job, 


Itendeth ni 2 
So mnerry; 
And now * Good-bye to’ Mr, Donn, 
Tash crky} = 
*T shall remember well its shades, 
ts Constant-délis and green areca los, 


winds om summer eves 


Where murmnrins 


Made mnie in the trembling leaves ¢ 


Those leaves. beneath whore shade the cob- 


Bier 


erry 


Cemented friendships chain at? Dons, 


ifis Perrys 


‘Anil now Tstamd upon the 


Wile shoots ovr favor ofPy 
Nak stth ta themedtie Dididelb aR 


The spot Where mv Tond wishes ar 


132. BPetbrewnin to Donne” een 


But steamer, stage, nor prancing cob, 
Nor wherry, 
May bear my yearning heart to * Dobs, 


His Ferry?” 


‘Tied to the roaring city’s wheel, 
Where omnibii their thunders peal 5 
Pent up mid bounds where vice is nursed, 
Where man with many 4 care is cursed, 
One lives amid a seething mob, 
Half terri- 
Fried with scenes imknown at * Dob, 


lis Ferry. 


‘Shake. shake your lazy sands, O Time! 
And swiftly bring round Samimmer’s prime 5 
Bring its vlad ales te watt mie back, 
Up the browl Hudson's sparkling track ! 
The vision makes my prises throb; 

I bury 
All work-day thoughts, and muse on § Dos, 


+ 


His Ferry 1° 


Whoever shall visit * Dopn’s’ the ensuing winter, and 
the pleasant domicil which we inhabited there, will on ex- 
amination find pieces of * Old Kwrek.’ sticking to the door- 


posts; retained there in the disparting struggle of the 


final adieu. 


a 


x Cub ee STh. 


wit c 
= 


“THE ceNTunwas IN BLACK! THE STABAT MATER. CONUNDRUMS A PRACT: 
ie ATRIBULE TO ALT ELLIOTT AND ANMANT AN SOIUGINAL’S 
has na JEREMY DIDDLER: A MORNING LOCOMOTIVE IN TITS METRO- ¥ 


; yo 8. ae 

st AN 'UNFORTONATE MEMORY?) INFLEENZAT. FOWERY! A PROPANE ier 
NONPLUSSED 2 A) TWO-EDGED COMPLIMENT: A MAN OF THe yh 

1S) SDNY TOES SEX ATORIAL BONNIE at COEUR TCA }STUeSEAST Gop. Ben ‘ 


jak Gost: Mya s me Aw de ANECDOTE, 1 am 


“ good thing to escape his ee eye. A stage: 
well freighted with passengers, was once travelling — 
Rosier to » es jee those on the outside v was a 


oo 


Pras cat aa in Black a : Won’ t the Gentle- 
in Dee come, aye the Ae i Perhaps the Gentleman | 
In short, the 


134 Pam GENTLEMAN an Ba wer 


in spite of lis taciturnity. At leneth, in the middle of the 
night, crash! went the coach, and the unlucky ‘outsides’ 
were sent headlong into the ditch, There was a world of 
work in repairing damages, and gathering together the 
limping passengers, Just as they were about setting off, 
the couchman was attracted by a voice from a ditch, where 
he found some one, white as aailler from rolling down a 
chalky bank. The Unknown prayed iu piteous voice for 
assistance. * Why who the deuce are you 7? cried coachee. 
‘Alas !? replied the other, in a tone halfwhimsieal, halt- 


plaintive, = Vin the (ri lle Mitte aD Black i 


ArE not these lines from the * Stabat AWeter? delici- 
tously translated 2 We have the poem entire, but secre- 


gate only the two stanzus which ensue: 


STABAT mater dolorosa, 
Justa ernecm: lierymosa, 


Din pendebst fi ins 3 


ar sernmentem, 
( tera et dolentem 
it wladits, 

O qnam tristis et afllicta 
Fuit ila benedieta, 

Mater unigeniti: 
Que marebat, ef doled, 
et tremebat: enn videbat 


ati 7 ‘ cyt. 


Although nothing could exceed the simple beauty of 


i oy yet | the reader will be fen with the true 


at the rendering : ae 


ae the cross the sforease ts : be es 

"Stood, cher wateh in sorrow keeping : i: re 
While was hanging there her Son: : Ee 

| Through her soul in anguish groaning, 

—O most sad. His fate bemoaning, 
Through and through that sword was run, “figs 


Oh how sad with woe oppressed, 
Was she then. the Morir Messed, ‘ 
aha Who the sule-Legotien bore 5 
As she sew [lis pain and anguish, 
She did tremble, she did languish, 
Weep, her holy Son before. 


saying to our Philadelphia correspondent, that the la- 
in bestowed Se ot would, ain tes 


bas id to | eet credit. foo fins 


136 : ATR rer ie oro A Rae 


There is such a thing as a practical conundrum, which is 
not aniss, ‘Look a-hea’y Sam’ said a western negro one 
day to a field-hand over the fence ino an adjoining lot; 
‘look a-hea’, d? you see dat tall tree down dar 7? + Yaas, 
Jim, T does’ § Wal, I go up dat tree day “fore yes‘dy to 
de bery top.” * Wat was you'a'ter, Sam?’ *1 was ater 
avcoon ss an’ wen Vd chased ‘im clar out tot? odder eend 
o dat longes’ lanb, TL hearn sumtin drop. Wat you etess 


"barns, Sam? DY you give “mi up? TERE ie A ae 


foolish nigga! eval) e-vah? Like to broked he neck : 


been limpin’ ‘bout ever since 1? 


We do not know when we have encountered a more 
forcible tribute to an Ainerican portrait-painter than ds cou- 
tained in the following extract from a letter which a dis- 
tinguished foreigner, at present sojourning in this country, 
recently received frome his wite, mow resident dn Lendon, 
The passage refers to the portrait of the gentleman im 


question. aoimost speaking dikeness of the original: ‘At 

last Lean apnounce to vou the sate arrival of the Jone-ex- 

pected treasure, vour dear portrait. With what delight J 

ereeted itis beyond miv power to express. My impatience 

to behold your pretured countenance induced me to attempt 
; 


to open the huge packing-ease mnatded, and [ soon sne- 


cecded in releasing it from its boudaye; aud to my heart's 


ke my sect eRe ue ane 
gees am more and more impressed with — 
— Esend you a thousand thanks for this to me 

prea ee eae if niet not cyan 


‘temporary separation ; and so restless am [ to we i _ 
Ne xO be! sais that scarce a ee 4 ; . 


a eine: rae me. ae my oan ne 
co and say that Tam more grateful to ‘oe then 


aon Cain baths, wane ne “truth Be 
he encomiun prose, upon Mr. Eviiorr in the Ree a 
fervent sentences is well deserved. We know, of, a Si ioe 
yportrait-painter who has advanced with more rapid See 
le ees ee: a) pene ice be the : 


jee Se ~ 
s eye Erpctres static ay ail a si 


138 Aa Qiao in see 


must have you paint ay portrait, and Twill paint your's 
in return. ‘TP shall only be too glad te do sof replied Mr 
Enniore: tT cannot help thinking that Tshould be able to 
obtain a characteristic likeness of yous * Yes answered 
Ixmay, (in & manner which we could see.) passing tis hewn 
over Tis face, with a significant gesticulation > ‘yes, | think 
you could: features plain and blocky — blocky Would 
that any New-Yorker possessed at this moment a portrait 
of our departed friend, such as he knew Ennrorr could 


have painted | 


‘Write Tam on the subject of originals,” writes an 
esteemed Southern friend, now a Senator of the United 
States, tallow me to bring to your notice a specimen? T 
was in the office of a legal friend some time since, when a 
dilapidated specimen oof Tiumanity, bearing fall traces of 
the wear amd tear of dife. came dm. Te addressed) ittisel? 
at once to the proprietor of the offlee 2 * Your servant, Sir, 
T see before ine. TP prestune, that distinguished: lawyer, —— 
——, muming iy friend, +1 myself, Sirsa in aflinity 
to the Jeval profession. Tam the son, Sir, of a) distin 
enished advecate in the Old Dominion: may mane, Laxen- 
por LAaNcter Lise —the Reverend Lancenet Tasers 
Loewe ol Tie oi the State af ——: Pf teach oo ied) 


preach alittle and Po ploneh a creat deal These combined 


operations have teld upomomes they tell pom THe Tea, 


AX Reverend, dcrReax Dipater. “139 


Sir, As the poet says, ‘These tatter’d robes my poverty 
hespeak. The people of my region, Sir, are poor, and 
»ean afford ane but litthe lelp., DT said, ‘1 will seek: the 
wealthy of another State: they shall minister to my 
wants.” T came hither to find them: but do you know, 
Sir, that external appearance has its effect upon men ? 
Yes, Sirpit hag ; and therefore, before T sought the wealthy 
I came to the wise, who regard not exteriors, but look to 
the mind. ‘Worth makes the man, and want of it the 
fellow ; the rest is all but leathers’ and indeed, Sir, there 
is very little ‘leather’? about me, as you may easily per- 


Fond 


ceive by looking at the tattered condition of my boots. 


Now, Sir, E will be grateful for your contribution, My 
wants are simple — my desires few. I have a small plan- 
tation, on the top of a high hill; the plantation very 
small, but the ill very high. A log-house graces its brow ; 
a beantiful well of splendid water is there, Sir; an orchard 
of benevolent frnit-trees is there also, (Teall them) benevo- 
lent, Sir, because they give both sustenance and shade to 
me, and 
Tis sweet to sit beneath the shade 


That your own industry hath made: 


Something of the poet, too, Sirgas vou see:) and Tam 
there also when Tam there; but at present the school- 
Mister (myself, Sir) is abroad, and my mission is) three 


fold: inst: To owant clothes: my jourmeyines sad my 


ERG: ep ee ae 


lnibors have brought biel tabits upon ome. (exeuse the 
yun, Sir: itis a college failing, * You may break, you 
indy ruin the vase HW you will, but the scent of the rose 
will linger there sul’) Sreoxp: Lwant money to buy a 
suodl negro boy: one that Tean call, on my return from 
my various travels, and say to him: Bor, Sam, Tom, or 
Whatever his name might be, ‘Take iy horse and carry 
him to the stable 2? 

‘Tarn might DL rest beneath my Jeuiv bower, 

And ling the spirit of the passing henr, 
Last and net least, Sir, | want window-sashes for our 
church, which we call * Meunt) Zion’ To want yritty and 


olass, or money to buv them: 


1 


oe Nore wey fale ts easily told, Mr. Link? said 


Loy trend, 
Sand my duty will be quickly performed. Tere are five 
dollars: if that sum is of any ase to vou, yen are wel- 
come to ite 

‘Will five dollars be of any service to me? Willa 
smart shower be of any service toa drotelitv land Will 
a daree stiee of the staf of life be of amy servier tow Time 
ery traveller? ‘Yos, Sir, five dollars aff be of arte to om 
Dy vou know what Twill do with this sum. which Tat 
new proud to call my own! Nay. Sir vou minst kre 


vou oxoht to know —so list to me. Tl willbrithase a pair 


AS REG ER EO. ok ee Ar ve) WD ede. — eT 


of boots for myself, with part: the balance shall be invest- 
ed in putty and glass for the aforesiad church, And new 
turewell? 
‘A yHoisanpb blessings, saith thy bard, 
i¥ thousand joy Sto thee: 
A life-time by no sorrow marrd, 


Acleath fron: anguish free,’ 


It ever yeu cole to — , Mir, come to ine. You will 
be welcome to the home, to the heart, to the hospitality, 
wt Laxceror Laxeiey Line. Once more, Vale /? 

‘And away he went. I saw him the next day in the 
streets. Te had ona fine pair of boots, and [ trembled 
tor the putty investment. Once more we met, and he no 
Jonger looked like ‘the man all tattered and torn, that 
kissed the maiden all forlorn, for he was dressed in a full 
suit of broad-cloth 5 * supertine” and as Facrs said, with 
the *heavy-swell cut. Whether he ever succeeded in re- 
alizing funds for all the simple and few wants and desires 


of his heart, | know uot? 


Thies goes avain that steran-shiriek of the locomotive, 
ow the Livedson River tase! Bab at carpi wows: 
guid insted of conveying wondermue new-eomers to the 
mietropolis, ik is carrving country-born metropolituis ito 
the very midst of their old associations. They tare passin, 


by the *goine-torth Ol the Aas; ftom ts oteii Meiers 


142 A Mornsindg LDoGomority sp. 


they leave the ‘roaring of the wheels? and the thousand 
sights and sounds which have long been familiar to them ; 
they pass the *out-squirts” as Mrs. Parrixeroy terms the 
suburbs, and anon the horizon begins to widen; the river 
broadens to the Tappaiin-Zee 5 the surburban villas, ¢leam- 
ing upon the shores, are left behind ; the hills, the ancient 
hills, arise, ‘whose summits freeze in the fierce Tight and 
cold 3? and beyond all, ‘les the vast inland, stretched be- 
yond the sights? an inland, at this spring-season, where 
the country-bred traveller sees in his mind's eve the blue 
smoke curling up from the maple-sugar ‘sap-works 3’ 
smells the bass-wood ‘spouts, ((goure’-split) and. thin- 
‘whittled? before the pensive evening fire of spring.) and 
inhales the odor of the red-cedar buckets: he recalls the 
deep, Ssploshy * snow, through which he tramped, ‘neek- 
yoke? on shoulder, to bring the Tuscious juice to the © store- 
trough,’ previous to being poured into the dark-boiline, 
Jow-murmuring © poteush-kettles 7° and he remembers well 
the looks of the vart-colored) fang, with an undersurface 
whiter than the finest zine-tints of our friend Fospicn, 
Which grew upon the prostrate and) decaying imonarchs of 
the forest, over which lie strode, on dius * sweet? mission, 
Perhaps he may remember a snow-storm: too, lke this in 
which we write, when his humble cot was shut up by the 
elements ; when the turkeys and geese, the eocks and hens, 


eame up the high snow-banks and peeked at the windows 5 


AON envi OuRMieige Non als a NE Ey ye@uie ae. 143 


when the long icicles, button-ribbed, like the end of a rat- 
tle-snake’s tail, hung scarcely-dripping from the eaves 5 and 
the little folk would open the outer door, move a step or 
two from it, the whitf of a snow-shower-bath taking away 
their breath in the mean time, and, half shrinking, half in 
sport, pierce two or three deep yellow holes in the bank, 
and then rush shivering into the house again. But there’s 
the last, the dying sound of the steam-whistle, away in 


the stormy distance ! 


Hearp a little incident to-day, which struck us as a 
very graphic illustration of the hurry with which surgical 
operations are sometimes resorted to. A brave officer, who 
had been wounded with a musket-ball in or near his knee, 
was stretched upon the dissecting-table of a surgeon, who, 
With an assistant, began to cut and probe in that region of 
his anatomy. After a while the ‘subject? said: ‘Don’t 
cut me up in that style, doctor! What are vou torturing 
me tn that cruel way for]? 

‘We are lookin 


operate MW 


w after the ball? replied the senior 

‘Why didn't you say so, then, before 2? asked the in- 
dignant patient. ‘LT ?ve got the ball in my pocket 07 said 
he, putting dis hand in his waistcoat, and taking it out. 
‘T took it out myself? he added; ‘did mt L mention it to 


you? T meant tol? 


144 INFEREENZAL Por try: 


Abe | atcha? 


edza!? That last was the sixteedth tibe we ‘ve sdeezed id 
tive bidutes. 


We have caught the + ldilu- 


We ‘ve been urs idly to sre the follows surg, 


but bade bad work edough Ore the 


‘By Bany-Apper is like the sud 
Whed at the dawd it flidgs 

Its golded sbiles of light upod 
Earth's greed ad lovely thi'gs, 

Id vaid Lsue: 1 o'dly wid 
From her a seordful frowd : 

gut sood as T bw prayers becid. 


She cries, *Oh de !— hego'det 


* By Bany-Appr is like the hood, 
Whed first her silver sheed 

Awakes the dightidgale’s soft tude, 
That-else had siled’t heed: 

But Bary-Appn, like darkest dight, 
Otte. alas! loaks dosed: 

Her shiles ol others beab their light, 
Her Prowds are all by owd: 

pate’ de burthed to by sereler 


iy 
hte 1 rde ary al 


‘Is Seholiarie county,’ writes living trend, ‘there 
lives aman whese addiction to profanity is such thet his 


maine has heeorme a bw-word and a reproach Dnt by some 


internal thermometer he so oraduates his oaths as to make 


them apply to the peculiar case in hand: the erenter the 


oe for anger, the stronger and more frequent 
urations. His business is that of a gatherer of ashes, 
he collects in small quantities and transports in an 


whieh stands upon the brow of a steep hill; and _ 


unattributed to any particular source, in a religious 4 
of this city: ‘Josras Wissrow was one of the Bt 


oe of the Mises elitpetis ees qt As hat 


that uel : prayer: was so very aia it ieee ; ; oe 
u hoped that Gop would grant it; but ‘ho ee 


ue ay 
te F: eat! 


146 WOR nD RYO Wet epoore 


Woxper if there are not some people in the world 
that do actually reason after the cool manner of the phi- 
losopher who gives this sage advice to lis friend ? Just as 
likely as not. We know some citizens who def according 
to such advice, ‘any way": * The duties of lite are two-told + 
our duty to others and our duty to ourselves. Onur duty 
to ourselves is to make ourselves as comfortable as pos- 
sible: our duty to others is to make them assist us. to the 
best of their ability, in so doing. This is the plan on which 
all respectable persons act. Adhere strictly to trith— 


whenever there is no oeension for Wine. Be varticalurty 


— i 


1 > | 7} 


eareful to conceal no one circumstance likely te re leand 
to your credit. Tf it be for your interest to lie, da sey aid 


do it boldly. No one would wear filse hair who had heir 


of hisown, but he who has none, must of course wera 
wig, A wig, vou sce. my voung friend, is simpy a Te 
with hair on it. [don’t see any difference between 
hair anda false nesertion. In faet, ID think a lie a vox 
useful invention, [tis Hke a coat or a pair or breee: 


it serves to (othe the paked. But do art threw vor flee 


DO PeY COMI, Some ig Gane 


fications swicy 
sons would have vou invariably A ak the frnth. aaa 
vou were i th im this Wri, in wlint departinent of joann 
meres could vor succeed] : How would you get on in the 


law, tor justance 2? What vagabond would ever employ 


oO CONS Th Esai ie De 147 


you to defend his cause’ What practice do vou think 
you “d be likely to procure as a physician, if you were to 
teil every old woman who fancied herself ill that there was 
nothing the matter with her? Never break a promise un- 
less bound to do so by a previous one: and promise your- 
self, from this time forth, never to do any thing that will 
put vou to inconvenience. Be firm, but not obstinate. 
Never change your mind when the result of the alteration 
would be detrimental to your comfort and interests ; but do 
not maintain an inconvenient inflexibility of purpose. Do 
not, for example, in affairs of the heart, simply because you 
have declared, perhaps with an oath or two, that you will be 
constant till death, think it necessary to make any effort to 
remain so, The case stands thus: You enter into sn en- 
easement with a being whose aggregate of perfections Is 
expressible, we will sav, by 20... Now if they would val 
ways keep at that point, there might be some reason tor 
your remaining unaltered, namely, your not being able to 
help it. But suppose that they dwindle down to 19 1-2: 
the person, that is, the whole sum of the qualities admued 
no louwer exists, and vou, of course, are absolved from 
your engagement, But mind, [do not say that vou are 
justified in changing ondy in case of a change ou the op 
pesite side: von may very possibly beeome. simply tired. 
In this case, a prior promise to yourself! wil absolve vou 


from the performance of the one in question. 


OE ia ah Pe oa 


We 


‘Shnane Pin 


heard a clever thing at the table of a friend at 
tthe other day, which is too good to be Jost. 
It appears that one morning at the capitol, just after the 
Senate had organized, Senator DapGer was seized with so 


Violent a fit-of sneezing. that it caused auch merriment in 
the oalleries, 


Senator Dickixsox, aoaman of eennine tue 
+} 7 Lovaas tae ath . 
mor, thereupon immediately sent lim the following + 


*A wnoist: in the Senate is nite a 


mit af place, 


Quer Yiohi-hand:* Aiars ’ HT USTED TST! 


ef provesstot enthasiem. Te was comine don 


rhe down dom 
Albany the other 3 


in ape oof corr noble Dds 


. | b i 
fiver steame net wy VN ne to take Tes qabaee yng 
> 7 
1 ; ' ; ; 5 
TAS ATR Es : Woy Bele, 
) : - i i ’ 
ahintst woAyE sry ey, | whiny yea as 
muveents of Toast and apparent) lietvinees ee 
Ie to BOlpe W Lo % boy Ah? > sani 
i] 
gary writl oY ~ y Sac Views fn 
nhs ‘ 
stipes din kane thet realm Deo Sth er ae 
; 
OP ost-1ys 78 I a aye 
i ; 
. OW aah ay 1 Koay nay = Ari 
' . ’ ’ : ‘ 
theo «fhe get i peeoeeiird. ay. ORET RAL Wa 


Gred: CEN ON wate 149 


third 7 Such a amusical critic as that would assign the 
Syowl” of a tem-ent, te “ve-duew lof a pussy, “or the 
bray of a jackuss, borne on the meht-wind, its specitic po- 
sition on the musical scale. What a beautiful thing it is ta 


fs} 


have San ear? for musie — especially such music} 


Who were standing one evening, some vears age, In the 


door of the house of a friend, residing mm one of the upper 
streets of the city, being about to take our leave of jim 
fur the nisht. The atinosphere was bewutifully clear and 
the vir delightfully cool. The fiv-cff stars shone in their 
serene and silent spaces, with a beck-ground of such deep 
blue as ene sees when looking into the sky at midnight 
from the tep of Kadétskill-mountain, While we were 
Seaging steadiastly into heaven, the tend by our side re- 
] . . Doge 5 } ~ . . aie { * 4 

marked Z 1, raltheshies there Tis St CTE NCH precietea to Hi ea cast 
somewhere about this time. in the heavens. bo was reqdine 
Eo a eae aa ee mT Mary ee RPT eer ere, gee en Creme 
SU UOMO URE TM LS WANS CHIC HED TNE Te lle Maile SNe uH Re LES 
first Appearance, L believe, tu tect quarter of tie Tener 
permite hivt upowend ite ac seuth westerly direction, We 
Ey Re eT ee ero ORL SE ar WEY Oe ews Arn Oe ae oe ee ae ee 
SOL BEA TRRON Sh TSR Uae VPC Pee eel Vie eves 
mo sky. whem our fiend exclaimed, +s [ive there is 1 
Comet wear! Li eeee ise. othe ott bee TS. Vat COPLMTTEN 
And following Tis direetine finger we saw, far up, ial 


away in the south-west, a semi-lmminous body, semethins 


150 BR ASG ta 


netumlike sn enlareed star. with a dim * continuation, like 


A, ~ 10 : 
1 


the fainter Heht of thes Milky Wav. of a clear, bright 
tieht.  * Look at it!— think of itl exclaimed our triend. 
‘There in vonder sky, is an erratic, wandering body, with 
no fixed orbit, uncontrollable, so far as known, by ay spe- 
citie Jaw, or regular celestial inmechanism, which, after 
sweeping its awful evele amidst the revelying worlds above 
us, suddenty ‘streams its horrid haar’ on the midnight sky ! 
How wide, how sublime. has beeu its celestial journey! 
Avid is it not a heavenly. an almost overpowerne thoweght, 
that hereafter, in a world of unclouded | 
ledge, it may be vouehsafed tous to see with our natural 
eves, uid without the mistakes to which ealeulatiom is sub 


ject. the course of comets, the order of the sokur and plane 


j +, os 5 fs : 
invstery that-now hangs suspenced above t Phis an- 
Chat o.. WIC APOC: | MANY PCRs BDO, Was They eairled 


to mite) a few days since. as we were stewing down Tr 


. ) 4 . 7 et ne 
Dims. Of (he niorimne of the recetit parbiar ecuipse 


oe 6} 1 Di Ay Squas 
ELE) Peeve ww: OQemonstrated mot only the opandenr ot 
‘ mee , : / : bs 
the divine y-ordered qmovements of the heavily bodes, 
Poy i ‘ Taye ‘ ] | 

: ( { 1 é t fy pach ¥ the creativisecdt? at 
5 LAPS ETS At the very moment prevliet AX si Say 
ai ie a bat of smeked ee Sabon aa fini Tin ot Sieh 
foe eles af ine opeat orb of dar. and conte He a 


ht. Wntil the” exaer wy 


Wat tryin. ba Ne fdyh 


tent that had been foretold was attained. And then it was 
that we thought of those who, at that precise moment, 
high upon the Alps, were looking from those towering 
forms of Nature that *pimnacle in) clouds their snowy 
scalps! to see the mighty shadow ef the eclipse roll along 
the vast region below, blotting out whole provinces of lovely 
Italy in its giant-march: It were worth the toil of a 


twelve-month to witness that sublime spectacle. 


SoMEBOvY, ‘we name no parties,’ illustrated in our 
hearing the other evening the vague idea which some peo- 
ple, who enter into Huvation, lave of the powers of Law 
over any and all eases, under all sorts of circumstances. 
\ man in a state of great exciternent entered a metropoli- 
tin lawyers office, and taking off lis hat, and a chair by 
the table at the same time, and wiping the perspiration 
from his forehead with a damp red-and-yellow pocket land- 
kerchief, asked the counsellor ‘iu chambers” for his * views? 
us tothe law! °* Welly said the counsellor, ‘as to whut 
uw ?— under what erenmstances 7 State your case. 11 
tell vou what thé Jaw is, when you state your ease. You 
want toknow. what-the law is As to whad 2? «Wal? res 
sponded the chent, scratching his head, and seeming to be 
greatly taken aback by this unexpected obstacle, ‘ wal, 


‘sposin’ a man leaves the state, and do n't come back ag’in ! 


15:2 AW \ANECWO TR, 


vHEN what’s the lawl? + T never shall forget? said our in 
formant, ‘the blank disappointment exhibited in that chenuts 
face, When T told lim that that was a case past any leoal 
surgery of mine, * Can't feteh lim, eh f—and he owes 
me more ‘n fifty dollars!* Seeing that his ‘case’ was 


‘gone, the ehent lett alse. 


NCAR BE Soe eae 


SIGS Swi hENS — THR» yiess” A Oe DCR CIN Lite 7 Gs Wincor a 


PCT WN ATES OG REGSENSTERS i TRG AA — RSA > Sa GEN: 
TS SUPT RES — ANEW TADENIS OPTI ROPIay OUP WETTEy AGHEAT. 


SHAKIS OF A DUDOMMANS Doel PP MYSEEiotS PRINT E+ POIReGN Dp" 


ANS 2 AN! GASITASE WS: CaS GAGS. S SAS AA am Noe SAAN 
REEDS 2, SAG | NT. ey AST Cus Ie B® Va 
SiG te Stee? Sse” SOLER OIA IGA Gir AN. ESSoilsae 


SAL Sy, ASAP TONE” ARI 6d A WERE DEDICATION. CIS pU SE 


PEUSE iS “PLEAS igs Wak SNESOey a Se as Wi sh 


Toh Tey 


THR GUESS 3° Ste P- OU NE LAGEA Dlos == iPS STL ey 
OOKING around, as we came in to-night, upou the wi 
nial Christinas-ereens, in all tasteful forms, with which 


1 


the hand of Aifection annually decorates the sanctum, we 
inet ‘Trin Cross? graceful in shape, and entwined with 
rosaries of red berries. Far back in memory we wet m- 
stantaneeusiy, and heard, for the first ume a8 If were, in 


we ditthe elaved, of our + bovlioad’s home? this first versa 


ata hymn fall trom the eloquent lips of the Tew. Duce 


Wires fsurwey tie woniioas eres 
On which the Prmwer or Grony dial 


Ailearthly euih LD eotat burrs, 


Anil fioth eantempe on sl ree 


How many are the cells of memary b-— how eonttie s 


the thines that are treasured there! ~--and how strane’ 


{Se 2 OP fo rres Ts re eet we oe ae, 


they rise to the mind, amid one’s daily cares and avoca 


tions! We shall know more of this mvysterv hereafter. 


‘Tiere is tew sides to the matter of war, savs loses 
Bigerow, writing from Mexico: and he proceeds to illus- 


trate the fret: 


*Trus kind o sogerin’ aint a mite like our October trainin’, 


Where a chap ceuld clear right out, ef it only looked like rainin’ ; 


Where the Cunnies used to kiver up their 


} uw 9 8 Fa a 
And send the Insines skootin’ off to the bs: r Tssmuers 
(Pear o gittin’ on Cem spotted) and a feller eauld ery quarter 


Ef he fired away his rave-red, arter too mtel Tum-and-water, 


Reeoleet what fun we bad -—Tand yeu and Dany Monies 

Up there te Waltisan Plain iast fel), a havin’ the Comw aris? 
This sort o Miing ain't jest like thats T wish tat Dowas fisher? 
Ninepence a day for Killay talks comes Kind of bww for marker, 


(Whe, [ve worked ont te Bhenghterin’ some, for Deavan Cnpnas iiss, 


And int caries hes wee Da} - ten ® 

Tis '2 4 re ihery 2 pe? } fea vee Pageb yy 
An ef ip wernt for shanks, I'd le | gin, shoph mpete 
).7 Lt The ; ae m Bt. War that I was sa 1 
Pics ‘ a te io ma, ta pay me for desarti 


Hosea is not the only one, probably, who has lately 


nscertaiticed that tiite traninos. and * OeNWALIS ° Sei 
of eyorous ekg 


A rrtexp ener informed us that one of the most ridie 


gious sighia he ever saw was on the Obie. rivers Pie was 


Re Ete PRCIP EXT OOS RE OBto. 155 


going up that beautiful stream in a large steamer, when 
the boat encountered a vast raft, something more than a 
‘mile Jong, and quite half a mile wide, with a small house 
in the very centre of it. It was coming down rapidly with 
the current, when the steam-boat, notwithstanding her 
efforts to avoid the collision, found herself in the ‘toils’ of 
the rat. having caught in such a way between its unevenly- 
projecting timbers as to be quite ineapable of  extrica- 
tion, And now it was that the doughty captain, standing 
upon the extremest point of the bow of his boat, with 
doubled fist, and ‘indignation in ’s aspect, apostrophized 
the navigator of the raft, and poured out upon his head 
the fiercest vials of lis anger; while the proprietor of the 


‘well-wooded’ floating acres, whose downward course it 


r= 


was Impossible to stem, was seen slowly approaching in the 


distance, holding his hand back of his ear, as if anxious to 
hear what ‘the captain said’ As soon as he came within 
hail, and was made fully sensible of the anathemas that 
were being hurled against him, he took a short black pipe 
out of his mouth, spat twice, and replied: ‘ You go to the 
devil with your little steam-boat! I do n’t want any o’ 


your saace! Get cout o’ the way!’ 


And resuming his 
pipe, he slowly wended his way back to his cabin. After 
having been borne down some eight or ten miles, the 


steamer was at length extricated. and the captain went on 


—— 


his way rejoicing, 


156 TROUSERS OFF CP alae 


Reaper, when in the providence of Gon, it shail be 
your fate to stand by the cold form of one whom you lave 
loved: te gaze upon lips, ot how pale and motionless : 
upon lands thin and wasted, crossed upon the silent 
breast; upon eve-lids dropped upon checks of clay. never 
to be lifted again; then haply you may think of these 
beautiful lines of the good Wretey. Amidst remembered 
hopes that vanished and tears that distracted, weeping Wel 
unknown tumults, ‘like seft streamines of eelestial min 


will come to vour aching heart this serene Pyare? 


red 


SN ee Sa CaP Res cori yee OAT Aan Tae Soe Liss 


a4 


The quiet, immovable breast 


Is heaved by atiliction no more. 
The heart is no longer the seat 
Of trouble or torturing pain ; 
It ceases to ilutter anid beat, 


It never will flutter again! 


The lids he so seldom could elose, 
By sorrow forbidden to sleep, 
Sealed up in eternal repose, 
Have strangely forgotten to weep, 
The fountains can yield no supplies, 
The hollows from water are free, 
The tears are all wiped from these eves, 


And evil they never shall see, 


Tre date lamented Wenxry Ixaay, used to relate, with 
Inimitable etleet, a story of an literate English Methodist 
minister at the West, who one nieht, at a class-mecting, 
mentioned the following affecting cireumstance: ‘It is 
but a little while-ah, since [was a-travelink along one of 
your great rivers-ah, surrounded by the deep forest; I 
stopped at a rude shanty by the low river side-ah, and 
there [tound a poor fiumily in evea-a-t afiliction-ah, They 
were all sick: them children were shivertuk and siarvine : 
their heads frowzy and dirty; and [was informed by the 
mother that they had last ther fine-tooth comb-ah ! Vey 
was Jguorant of the go-dspel, and did at seem to care 


about it, ither: for when T reasoned with “em-ah, the wee 


158 AS Pe LOS? BER OEP OPED ED 


mau was all the time lamenting the loss of her tine-tooth 
comb-aht * dave vou the Bible in your cabin 2° said 1 to 
her, suvs Tah; says she, ‘Yes, theer it is, up theer on the 
eateheallahy pointing to a narrow shelf over the smoky tire- 
place, * but we do n't often read into it-aly ha’nt read any 
ont but once’t, when our little Birn died with the aver 
foras much as tew months-ah i? T got onto a die-tub, iy 
friends, that stood in the corner, and reached up and took 
down the blessed Book, all covered with dust-ak: and 
what do you think it was that [opened to-ah ? What do 
vou think it wes that T found there-ah, to satisfy the lone 
Ines of that poor woman-ah 2? Tt was tue lone lost. the 
long-wanted, fine-tooth e-oo-m-b-ah Oh, av hearers, 
sa-u-rch the xkripters-ah ! Mf she had only Saarched the 


rs 


skripters, how her mind would ‘a been eased-ah ! 


Great omen, great plilosephers, are sometimes beaten 


| 
' 


on the own ground, by the simplest minds and the least- 


B) 


instructed intelleets. We've lanehed a hundred times at 
my ii}ustration of this, which oceurs to us at this moment. 
We live heard, or have read somewhere —but where we 
not the sholitest notion —t 
NVewros, the immertal plilosonher, was riding over saa: 


Eugvish plam or ‘down,’ when a bey who was keepin. 


sheen eniled ont to him: * Yeu'd hetter make haste 


' 


Ao Pir SRO PF me A ORG Eee wa 149 


Sir, or youll get a wet jacket” The sky was clea: 
there was not a cloud, nor a speck ef a cloud, to be seen: 
and the philosopher considering the remark a hoax, or at 
least an impertinenee, rode quietly on; but he had not ad- 
vanced six miles before a rain-storm suddenly arose, which 
wet lum to the skin! Saturated as he was, he neverthe- 
less rode back, to ascertain ow an ignorant Jad had at- 
tained a precision in, and a knowledge of, elemental calcu- 
lation, of which the wisest philosopher might well be 
prou d. 

‘My lad? said Newros, when he arrived where ‘fed 
ive you a shilling if 


re) 


lus flock, the rural swain,’ ‘Tl 


e 
you ‘Il tell me how you foretold the weather so truly. 
‘Will ve. Sir?’ said the boy, scratching his head, and 
holdiig out his hand for the shilling, Taving received it. 
he pointed to his sheep, and thus expounded his ‘theory :’ 
‘When you see that black ram turn his tail toward the 
wind, it’s a sure sign of rain within an hour!’ Now, 


Go 
‘Newton's apple, FRAN KLLN’s kite 
Gave laws-to lighting and'to lights * 

but cither philosopher would as soon have consulted a hy- 


dranie ‘yam? as the best merine, for the keen practieal 


: 1 ‘ ie Pe te : aS pie ay 2 seen Pe po 
SOG DY Obs€i paleo, Out of Liar yu reeree, 


ka V\y ledge 2 


which was exhibited by the ‘Shepherd of Salisbury Plan: 
ter. if we remember neghtly, it was on Salisbury Dla 


where the incident which we have narrated oeeurred, 


*L say, Square, what ‘Wl yeou take for that ‘are doy o° 
vourn 7 satd a Yankee pedler to an old) Dutch farmer, in 
Ue netehborhood of Laneaster, Pennsylvania: * what ‘Ul 
vedu take for him? Te sint a very wood-lookin? dow ; 
but what was vou callatin’, inay-be, he “d feteh 2 * AID 
tesponded the Dutchman, dat dog ish at wort) noting, 
most > he ish mt wort’ you to buy “um. Guess tew dol 


lars abedut would: eit him, would a’t it? TCH eiwe von 


fiat tor. him’. *¥ake: he as “7b wort dais > We 


(ake him said the pedier, *Sh’stop!? saad the Diwtch- 
id: t dere “Ss one tine about dat dow | ani *Piaalh® Ah, 


tre ont Tits collar: Ldowt want that. stlorestid thre ped 
lags st el aieeh wat? replicd Mvuheer : hée*s a bows dav, 
bat Lean t sell de wag of his dail when 1 cones hone S 
There is some good tenest Ditch poetry of feclne im that 


reply, vewder, if von will bur think of ita monent. 


A. Goon story was told us the other daw hy Me 
Wiasnieares Tevine, of the late Mr. Pox: Brisk nines 
ter at Washington, when at Paris, about sixteen qenrs 
since, Te must lave been somewlnat of a wag in Tas 
vornger days, Ther: was at the time an Trish lade Mes. 
(, _ of seine fashion. residing in Pars. wht acre 


muesion fortamioners of raik. She had dye a 


iia UNIS Serie icc, bose kenge ben eti at {61 


party to dinner, ou the first of April, when Mir Fox wrote 


herahote, in the character of a Count of her uequaint- 
aver, Infornune her that he had just arrived, aud request- 
ine to have the pleasure of introducing to her his [unga- 
rit friend, the Prince of Sceidlitz-Powderz, who intended 
tu stay but two or three days in Paris. With this note 


yas sent a cards nerve: 


. sig oe Ra he A ef . 
re tread ae PONG ee Mas) Oe Tr 4 
| We ANTAe pers Siok TR Ee { 


Mrs. C —— immediately replied to his note, by invit- 
ine line dard dus friend to dinner. In the course of the 
Inerhine, she culled on two or three of her fishionable 
friends, who were to have soirées, requesting permission to 
introduce the Privee to them. The hour of dinner ar- 
rived, but the Prince did not make Jus appearance. Tle 
Views were kept Dack wntil they were nearly spoiled y stil 
The dinner was at Jast served. 


Wo Prince was ferthconun: 


Varios specutations were indulee], in tlie exurse of tie 
pewaest, about the Primes: what lind of ® aman tre tute 
hee wWaether wore om oll tall or shorts dark or fab 


ee, A Tonearmin present. did net knew of suc a tile 


anions their nobility. “hinted, cautiously, thet it was 


162 Kew DS Be 0 ree ie oes 


possible he aight be an impostor, Mrs. G —— would 
not listen for a moment to such a sugeestion, At leneth, 
about nine o'clock, a letter, with a black marein, was. re- 
ceived from the Prince, regretting that he could not avail 
himself of Mrs. © ——'s kind invitation, as lie had just 
heard of the death of his cousin, the Bisnor or Epsom- 
Sarrz, who had died at Cheltenham! In a corner of the 


note was written * Poisson CT uAlvril /* 


As Tndian was executed, not very many vears sinee, 
at Batavia, in this state. Tle was a singular genins, with 
all the indomitable indifference peculiar to his race. While 


under sentence of death, he amused dimeclf with drawing 


] 


ride sketehes on the walls of his cell, with a piece of char 


cou, representing lumseif undergoing execution. * Tere,’ 
said he to the sheriif oue day, tlook here? pointing to a 
sketeh with three flenres: See. man with sword — e@tiess 
yor 2 oman with rove on his neck —tooimneh choke: ees 
may-be qe; see lazy man, with book: guess, miay-he 
minister and therewith he smiled grimly. Ie kept up 
this spirit to the very Inst. Te said one day, ‘No use to 
be feller without vou Aef7 of a feller and when standine 
on the andlows, he rephed te the clereviman, who rebuked 
his indifference and stolidity with the remark, that he feared 


he > would go to hell’ + Vo, guess not > (an Indian's ex- 


ERT Tasaes, Nek ieee Lake dh ae Sore 163 


pression of doubt. always t) and with these words scarcely 


out of lus mouth, he was *launched into eternity,’ 


We have always thought these lines in * Faust, de- 


senpuve of the death of a mother, to be very touching. 


"Ant! it is the spouse, the dear one! 
Ah itis that faitlifal mother! 

She it is that thus is borne, 

Sadly borne and rudely torn 

By the sable Prince of Species, 

From her fondest of Protectors ; 
From the children forced to flee, 
Whom she bore him lovingly, 

Whom she gazed on day and night 


With a mothers deep delight? 


Tire ’ Vounkee Diicke describes] hy our Medtord (Muss.) 
correspondent is on file for dusertion. It is, in one of its 
features, not unlike the aneedote of anold) official Dutch- 
man in the valley of the Mohawk, who one day stopped 
a Yankee pedier journeying slowly through the valley Yk 
the Sabbath. and informed him that he must * put up? for 
the dav: or “fit vash veshessary dat he should travel, Ihe 
must paw define tor de pass” Th wes necessary. it scents; 
tur he told the Yankee to write the pass, and be would sign 


it, ‘that he could do, though he did n't much write, nor 


64 Ao Pity ey Rab SN ea 


read writin’ The pass was written and signed with the 
Phochman’s lieroulyphtcs, and the pedler went forth * inte 


the bowels of the land, without Impediment. Some six 


‘ 


montis aterward, a brother Dutchmin. who kept ac stere? 
farther down the Mohawk, *in settling * with the pies of 


oat aie Ree 
ficial, Trought in, among other accounts, am ora for 


twenty-live dollars’ worth of goods, *Tew ish dart sai 
he Sst La) of \ ae 3 Tey er Piy Gs. ta) ercdel bet i en 
him’ ‘The order was produced + he put en Tis speineles 
and examined %. “Yass. dat ish eV Vitae. Soil Gale == 
yatis: bit—stieh dot dd Varbes gaaee 


out One ol ose Pay Wes tani! EO) Sao 
e ' 

yaarced Cray ‘ Bik ¢ roeniery od the 

(dest Inhab i such it nr Toe ere, 

ites y ns } 7 \ e i 

MWiev nre Hop AR : VOQES Tey, Ve Ae) 

PERMITE Ie, Hh” ; i rh EEE ee aoe hae 

7 ’ 1 

mired, 1 . i Our athena WeRraets 
‘ . ‘§ 

Tar. Abt \ ; i 1 OEP tee gine 

. ‘ 
Tae j a ‘ ” | DE OS Ty EAT 
: 

re + € 

iat. WoO wots > i} Wiiak at see hE 7 H 
i] ’ yay | y -_ ‘ +] j 1 +] 

Wie Fe Su er. a os er bianca Sey acl eames 

2 Way pom Cather WInGowW See Oe Tee Sy ees 

ok be eT Ie | sy Ge +t big ] heyy + 3 Lawes } YY om j on Pov yaeeet ty 5 

Soe, & Lite MWeaiad oes LEN. Chis BORGER Teas 


Ne See ae Cote ane an let mie Shasta eA 165 


pathway through the wilderness.  Lfow at this moment 
the floods of Lony-Iland Sound ‘ela their hands?’ 
flow the breakers roar at Sandy-[Look !  ILow they tum- 
ble and foam ond dash, at tie Lone-Branch of the high 
Jersey-coast Gop help the brave mariners on our shores 
to-night :—and Heaven defend the poor and destitute, in 
this vast widerness of human dwellings, over whom the 
Stormy Spuit now sails with dusky wing! Cloldren of 


Affuence © ye have ‘ ta’en too little care of this :” 


O vet who, sunk in beds of down, 


Feel not aowant but what yourselves ercate, 
Think for a moment on lis wretehed fate 
W hora friends and fortune amite disowm! 


Ill-satisied keen Natare’s clinvrons call, 


Stretelrd et lis Sita, he 


luvs himself to sleep, 


While thronat: the ragged. root and chinkyawall 


Chill v’er ius siumbers piles the drifty heap!* 


To handreds in this crowded metropolis to-night there 
is nothing ¢dea? in this sud picture. ~ Lappy they, if, de- 
spite the wretehedness of their desolate habitations, a. 
‘ 


clear dewy haven of rest that sweetens toil’? envelopes 


them, aud fithul climmerings of cloud-skirted dreams 1? 


Wi do net usnaliv meddle with polemical matters, 
and have takea no part inthe ‘eh? or ‘Low Charely 


question: but are imelined in this connection to ask 


166 Tris AA eewot ooh Sheen 


Whether the * Episcopal Floating Chapels * on the East and 
North rivers are net * Tigh? or + Low? churelies. aecording 
to the state of the tide 2 And speaking of des, we have 
another query, of a selentifie character, te propourd, 
There is aman oon the south side of Lone-Island. a man 
the periphery of whose aidermanic * corporation” is a mar- 
vel to strangers, who lives almost wholly upon the * Jay 
drauliec clams’? of that region, which are so proverlially 
‘happy’ at high water. So great is the aflinity of his 
gastnic demands with the sea, that it is a well-attested fact 
in the neighborhood, that his belly rises and fills with the 
tide, * There is more in this than meets the eve, if Philo- 


sophy eould but find it ont’ 


Wavy ainisernble eviie of an old Tachelor it must 
have been who wrote the ensuing deseription of marriage | 
THecought te he ashamed of himself 2” > Traste at the 


CEH BRASS of marnaces that take lite over the whole 


world ; what poor, contemptible affairs they are{ A. few 
Soh iooks, © Walk. a dance. a SUA ze ot the hhaud. a pope 
ping of the question, a purchasing of a certain tanner of 
yaras.al white satin, a rig, a minister, a staoe or fiw in 
s hires, a melt tao natry inn. and the whede 
like r sig LATTE, Pow tive oP Le WGI kee twa sheepish-hwokiine 


persons are seen dunghog on each other's artis, lookin at 


SDR Gee ee Ph Wee: 167 


water-falls, or making morning calls, and guzzling wine 
and cakes; then every thing falls into the most monoto- 
nous routine; the wife sits on one side of the hearth, the 
husband on the other, and little quarrels, little pleasures, 


gather round 


httle eares, and little children gradually 
them. This is what ninety-mine out of one hundred 
find to be the delights of matrimony” We read this a 
moment ago in the sanctum to a young lady of eighteen 
with large, bright eves, red and dewy lips, a matchless 
figure —as Grorrrey Crayon writes, ‘just bursting from 
her boddice ’— and she says she thinks it ‘atrocious,’ and 
the man who wrote it a ‘very great fool!’ If the writer 
could have seen our fair friend when she said this, we be- 


lieve that that would have been A7s opinion also. 


‘Wer were lately amused, savs a wageish eontempo- 


rary, (at an ‘art criticism’ delivered by a raw and unsus- 


pectng Jonaruas, who had been quietly gazing at a 


Wee 
den inene ef our suburban villages, which amone other 
omaments, boasted several dindsome marble statues. 
“Jest seo what oa waste! observed our rural friend: 
‘there’s no tess than six senre-erows in that little tenu-foot 
garden patch, and ary one of 7em alone would Keep ott 
all the crows from a five acre lot)? That would lave been 


A pleasant eriticism for the sculptor himself to hear, would 


. } + . 7 . . 
nt wv? Ele wonld n't have seulyd again, * weeleacna 


We have done evil this day at the Ferry of Dorr, 
and remorse sits at our heart and * enaws at its cruel leis- 
ure’ Wha should we have done the deed 2 It was not 
revenge > it was net ambition, it was net exactly wanton 
ness; ernelty was not in all our thenehts. The seene it- 


self; the pleasant summer dav; the cool woods, the 


murmuring rook: the happy lithe folk: the twittermtis 


birds in the trees, and the chirping. * peeping” cliekens, 


runuing in and outoof the erass in the green olule Tw the 


brook, following their gausieus ‘iether? whe seemneal to 


) i : 


know at once w ther were Soni: ad these things were 
not sugeestive of ernelty. Dut ‘Young: Kare ae 
goers-hbow wan.ont af the roht kad, with tice apd aM 
camplets. The arrow was of pine; light, and lions at 


y 


the end, What it wes that tempos ws cas ne took the 


erossti ry re 


an nyrow at that NSO Gg eae piteat tye 
Ga henowe cannot tell: We did wt saint fe S.o9 TP ae 
could Tit hers yer obtect, ‘af we dnew om own Theat, 


MUS io See Sf we could nit} -~ ach weld ae It, hha 


eholy peep, for it hed received serious *intened dais 


Die. Go “AN NOL By 169 


It was immediately taken up and conveyed to the nearest 
house. We ‘sat on the body? and discovered the follow- 
ing facts: the ‘os humert? was broken in two places; there 
Was a componud fracture of the ‘pia-mater;’ the ‘lett ela- 
viele, in its * lower limb,’ was completely severed from the 
mnin trunk; and the transverse-section of the smaller in- 
testine was collapsed at its junction with the liver and 
liehts. 

The ease was hopeless, Every thing that the best 
unprofessioual medical skill could do to save the life of the 
little innocent was performed. But allin vain. Its throb- 
bing, fluttering heart ceased to beat at about one o'clock 
of the same day. Tt expired in the arms, and wes washed 
by the pitving tears, of sympathetic little Jose. Then 
wis the time for the lesson which we inculeated upon the 
seusitive hearts of the little by-standers. We enlarged 
upon the heimousness, the guilt, of such carelessness, such 
honehtless eruclty, as they had that day witnessed 3 until 
at length the tile began to turn in our favor, They began 
to lose sight of our practice in favor of our preaching, and 
to Jook upon us, on the whole, as an ‘instrument’ de 
sieuerL t3 entorve a “erent ioral teath!? Welly we did 
wiistrahe onesyinamely, thet any w rong-doing will aways 


{iu the shape ef an mnevad- 


curry with it its own puuislins 
wile remorse. We fete chicken-rearted all day, atter that 


‘drendful casualty. 


170 Oe R SB AS BOT a < GAS Ra 


Tue Letter prom Mrs. Metaprop” Vas little to recon 
mene it. unless it be its sulliciently wretched orthowrapha. 
Which certainly does not constitute wit, though it has the 
merit of nine inten of the orca! Jxcw Powsxtse’s ii 
intors. Mrs. Lavina Ramsporrom, now, was a admodel in 
this kind! Ter mistakes were natural and her words 
were never forced, Her travelling * dairy, containing the 
‘cream of lier information, overflowed with burlesqtie and 
humor. Having a little time on her hands previens te 
Sembrocation in the packet for Callous in Frances she 
‘took it by the fire-lock* and went to see the * School for 
the Tndignant Bind * near London, amd also te ¢ wnterbary, 
to view its celebrated cathedral, * The ofd) Virein whe 
showed us the church, said it was an arelivplscopal sey 
but J see no sea, and Ide wt think he could. tor it was 
seventeen miles OW After partaking of a tvold colle 
tion, for which ‘the charee? was ‘ubsorhent? thogel i 
were for the * Antowraph of all the [ussias’ she repairs to 
Dover, and embarks for France. While erossinee the 
Chiintiel she tells us that ‘a fat centheman dell inte st of 
apperplexits aud lay prostitute on the floor: tumt dad m4 
it have been thet we tiad a docter in the ship. whe tune 
diately epoated his temporary artery awl his joetiar Vein 


oe " ‘ 1 is 1+ a ae any 
with a tanéelot he Had in dis. pocket, fthink wae eh 


have Seen Vite enel All his arn ety Nh ihe Hrwist date aes 


~ 


Acme Orie cat -Dsn in Ee Ac Om t 


distress was to be able to add a crockodile to his will!’ 
After artiving in Paris, she visited all the curiosities ; 
ainony other thines, the ‘statute of Lewis Quixzey, who 
died of a soro-throat, [exsny Carrer (‘no relation to the 
Carriers of Portsmouth, unless lis posteriors have greatly 


Ss 


devenerated in size and figure,’) ete. At Rome she was 
much impressed with the ‘Vacuum where the Pore keeps 
his bulls” but very much wearted with the Zedaon that she 


heard sung at St. Peter's. 


Hexe is a good thing, quoted by a triend in connec- 
tion with a somewhat kindred aneedote which has ap- 
peared in the Kyrckernocker: ‘The members of a so- 
ciety In Maine, by dint of long exertion, had erected a 
small church. One of the number was dispatched to a 
large town to request a noted divine to take part in its 
dedication, Not getting lis errand exactly, he simply ap- 
pliel to the minister to come and dedieate our new 
church? ‘What part do you wish me to take?” said the 
clerevinan. * Whi, we want you to dedicate the church? 
was the reply. * But do vou wish me to deliver the ser- 
non. or to make the openina prayer, or only to make 
some remiurks 27 § Why) exclaimed the brother, piqued 
at the obttseness of the parson, * we simply want ve to 
dedicate the church, the whole ont; it’s only seventy-tive 


feet by fifty: want you to dedicate itl? 


172 SU Rivka ew he Ash ose as 


Mecu amused to-night with an anecdote told in the 
sanctum of anartist in ornamental glass, who was prepare 
ing pictures of three or four of the Avosties, for an. oric! 
window of a church in a flourishing western city. Ile 
had just taken them from his furnace, and was showing 
them to some of the vestry. ‘Don't say any thing about 
it, sald he, *for it would wt be noticed by one person out 
of a hundred, but Edo mt mind telling you in confidence : 
Saint Perer is a little cracked in the head: he was too 
soft in the upper end: but T lay got a first-rate bake on 
Pacur. Saint Jos. though. is wt more than hidthaked + 
Ti} have to bake another Fous. Bat d ever vou sre a 


hetter-baked Parr ? Tis remerks were entirely pratos- 


stom: nor had he the Most remote iden of there beine iL 


: 5% Py ee + 
doubleemeaning in auv tine be was saving. 


Tle was an acenrate observer and a sotmd reasoner, 
who sail: * Mankind are always happier for heresy heen 
happy; so that you inake them happy now, vou mike 
them happy twenty vears henee, by the memory of i A 
childhood passed with a qisture of ration iedulsonce. 
ander fond and wise parents, dilfnses over the whale of 


Heo feelin of cali pleasure > aad. in extreme old dee. 1. 


the very last remembrance which time can crise from the 


Gs 


Rees Mieseercrse VV eens he 


mind of man. No enjoyment, however mnconsiderable, 1s 
coilined to the present momeut. A man is the happier 
for life tor having made once an agreeable tour, or lived tor 
wy leneth of ume with pleasant people, or eujoyed any 
considerable interval of innocent pleasure, which contri- 
butes to render old men so inattentive to the scencs before 
then, and carries them back to a world that is past, and 


to scones never to be renewed again, 


We are ollived tor the kind words of our *Vewburgh 
Friend, and for this anecdote of an odd character in that 
mendians ‘Riding in a stage-coach a short time since, 
we happened to have :tneng others for a fellow-passenger 
an ardent tectotalier, who was descanting cloquently upen 
the ereat value and mmauy excellent qualities of water, and 
especially of its prime necessity us a beverage; declaring 
that nothing could be substituted in its place, ete. when 
an old gentleman, who had been listening with evident 
iNpatience, remarked, with rather a contemptuous look : 
*Tohaiat voting to sar ae'im water; To think it’s ver, 
wood in its place. Dut for a steady drink, vive me rain! 
Lshenld just ike you to have seen Teetotal’s thee wien 
Nhe Lieard this reply. All the passengers looked arave fon 
a sccond or so, (for the assumption was altowether as: 
rounding.) and then burst into a rear that made the stage- 


ae = = fe 7 ’ 
coach ring again. 


Seat one mentioned to us the other day the eimeiim- 


Stanees of a fat querutous old iellow who was driven frei 
au singe-coach by passengers Whom he had annoyed with 
his erowlings and complataings. A] ciosu was lehted, 
When at a preconcerted moment oue of the passengers ex- 
claimed, * For Gop’s sake, Sin, put out that fire! 1 have 
four pounds of powder in my overcoat pockets” * Driver! 
driver} stop !— stop ’—sror .? exclaimed the victim of 
this *cunpowder plots’ * Let me get out? —let me eet 
out! There ’s a man here with powder tu Ins pockets, 
ane helt blow as all £6 othe devil? “fhe compl an 
‘got out” aecordingiv. inne sinall hurry. and the ptissen- 
gers thenecforward pursued the even tenor of their way, 
undisturbed by bois farther annovance, This ahecddte Te- 
minds us of an eecnrrence which ones took placer at the 
lone stil picturesque bridue over the Cavinen lagkges, cabin 
Middle Western Warrier, of which SILCCCSS- Aa defeat, 11 
tines oF politieal excitement, are now predicated. A wig 
trem PLACA, whoowith sone lalfdozen frietls lad tenn 
disporting at the preasant and feurishing villige of Sonos 
Pails. detained. on approaching the tell-eate im a steneh, 


one stenimy winter weht, te >a the biidee.” Ve dvayan, 


’ 


hove. seal hein the aleioch, and whe we seep Tikaram 
EFAS PMY ot litthe, and ivetable, brit cdo yt wWaereer 
Here: vetutiier these Worse Dlankets! Ther clad aut Gaal 
| 


vlen the Satoh cume tueer the picket-draw of the betdee, 


INURE OmOuN bale ve Gan? oer Ton, ©. Nos 


they began to moun and shake, so that ‘it was piteous to 
see and eke to hear’ *T have nothing less than this ten- 
dollar bill,” said our wae, handing the gate-keeper a bank- 


note: ‘but for heaven’s sake change it just as quick as 
; 2 ; | 


ever you can! I have three friends in the sleigh who are 
almost dead with the small-pox, and I’m in such an 
awin) ———'* 

*Drive ont drive on!’ said the terrified gate-keeper, 
handing back the bill ; ‘drive on -— pay next time?’ Above 
the whisthng of the snow-laden wind wlich swept over 
that frozen lake, and the trampling of the horses’ fect on 
the bridge that nivht, the gate-keeper heard the loud langh 
of those wavs, proclaiming that he had been ‘taken in and 


done for _ 


Loonixe down from the roof of a lngh dwelling at 
nicht wpon a creat city, partly revealed by a contlagration, 
ine spectacle. Tn the semi-gloom, uprise 
the towers, steeples, domes and cupolas into the deaveius, 
now brehtening now fading in the rising and sinkine 
Hane. “The far-off claikine of the engines: the suldned 
rowret human voleest the fame emickine of the flames, 
aud that Miouetone of raging dire whielt rises solemnity 
Into the cmpyvrean, and the restless patter of a thous 


feet 2 all these JSS HO OUy CONCEPTION, the lament of 


— 
~ 
C. 


} Tay Sica wer Aa 


sublimitv. Looking wp to the dark blue sturbecemined 
dome above, one cannot help saying with Dayanc: 
* Try spirit is dreundd, 
Quickening the reekiess mass that sweeps along; 
And this Gernal sownd, 


Voices and fooitis of the ninumbered throng, 


Like the resounding 


Bed, 


Or like the rainy tempests, speaks of Ture! 


‘And when the hours of rest 


Come like & calm upon the mid sea brine, 
Washing tts bilewy breust, 


The Guiet of the moment toa is Tarr ; 
[t Dresthes of Him sho keeps 


The vast and helpless ety whhie it sleeps 


WEI RR le 1 


Sh PS h Phy —= Gers Tey THAT MIO ASs Sie OP BEI SIO Tus 
SER CAVGRE =». TEePreisuR Pines. Woe Oonrs——ihky 
TieEMO ys, EMS, “rans SINt Mb > SRR PRRs CNP Ba 
Tish shWehiNaAay “AUM-SEREENT  MSESTISY ~ olesighs FARSI FASE iss 
OF ANE ICAWVESKILLS?. “AQHDENT SAL ACHUAINTENCES © ANT “CARRAIDOAN 
CURES a. NN TREAT PAR S RENTS AIST SORES PNT Ce Ey OSIERAE 
WUMOU Se DUPER ERE Ay DIROMSLAN: “DONE Fy a SRA) DINGS Vissi 


PRESENCE? OP DEATIL 


hike perceive by late English journals, that Dickens at 

the London Theatrical Fund dinner. amone other 
things remarked : + Tf any man were to tell me that he de- 
med lus acknowledgments to the stage, L would samply put 
to iim one question — whether he remembered lis first 
play. Twould ask him to earry back his recollection to that 


assy 
> 


ereat might, and call to mind the bright and harm 
werk which then opened to lis view” We thought of 
our tirst play, the other night at Binghamton. A) com- 
pany of perambulating actors, and some of them very 
Coed aeters too, including the manager a talented and 


eeniemurlike person, were to perlorm at the court-liot o. 
=o in the evening we went up with a few esteemed flien 


Qe 


17? 


The stage was erected at one end, and the audience occ 
pied the jury-box, Witnesses’ stand, and the side-sents for 
spectators. The orchestra was a single fiddle, played at 
iitervals with great energy. Little boys were walking 
conumudly about in the open space before the stage, ped- 
dling candy and pea-nuts. The drop-curtain was a * fea- 
ture” Tt had the picture of a bird that might have been 
intended for the Bird of Jove, but * by Jove !? it was such 
an eagle as we never saw before — nor since! The whole 
scene? the acters and the acting: the fresh-hearted little 
boys looking on in wonderment: the tiuselled dresses ane 
decorations ; all brought vividly back tous the memery of 
our first plow. Tt was at the loug-room of the village mn, 
and * Messrs. Anchnomn,. Trowrrmean and Gane 


rortmers, Tow wist- 


meng other distrious, were the 4 
fully did we reenrd, that mieht, for dhe dist time. the 
patched and taded mottled green curtain > the flashing of 
e}oe-buckles, the oleate of fesh-colored ‘jolts, sail 


the sparkling of spangled garments, caught in elimpses 


beneath it. Aud the play —oh, ‘it was grand)? Tt was 


‘Zasca, or the Revenge! and Mr Ancunonp, a mouthine 


ol Stentor, * did’ the here. We expected qinel of tim, 


for we dived heard bun say in the Orn ae irs }ruwt op 
/cu-t Aw, Saw. is mie lavorite pawt, [played Zien 
henendegwaw : and Mr Frowers Ganw-o maw, Gy ei 


he doost intelligent of its ciiizens, pronommeed it supe 


GOoOGwre sy aE at Mere Ls. 179 


acting.” How the old mountebank did roar and rave. 
Then came +The Village-Lawver, another favorite ‘pawt’ 
of his; and at this moment we can hear him say, in his 
affected, piping voice, ‘ Thats my signatur— Tio’sy 
Sy-A-acnE!? There, too, we heard our first public singing, 
except at church. The curtain had descended upon the 
persolives Whose sorrows were our own, and * musing in 
inelancholy mood, we were gazing vacantly at the long 
row of tallow-candles placed in auger-holes iu the boards 
of the stage, and at the fiddler who composed the orchestra, 
and who was regonnoitring the house. Presently a small 
bell was rung with a jerk. There was a flourish or two 
from the ‘ orchestra.’ Another tinkle of the bell, and up 
rose the faded drapery. An interval of a moment. sue- 
ceeded, during which half of a large mountain was re- 
moved from the scenery, and a yrece of forest shoved up 
to the ambitious wood which had been aspiring to overtop 
the Alps. At length a young lady, whom we had just 
seen butchered im the most horrid manner by a black vis- 
aged villain, came from the side of the stage with a smile 
which, while it displayed her white teeth, wrought the 
rouge upon her face into very perceptible corrugations, and 
made a lowly obeisance to the audience. She walked with 
measured step three or four times across the stage, before 
the flanng candles, smiling again, and ‘hemming, to clear 


ay 
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her voice. A perfect sullness at lenoth preveiled : ‘awe 


180 é‘ ‘Siow y sor bps ey 


Consumption checked his chided cough ;* every urehin 
suspended hus eat-call, and ‘the boldest held his breath for 
atime. The fair voealist looked at the *leader? (whe hid 
nobody to follow him,) and commenced in aoe with 
his instrument. How touching to us was that sone! 
We shall never have our soul so enrapt again; for that 
Treshness of young adimiration possessed our spirit which 
ean come but once. The sone was * The Braces of BPal- 
quither? a Scottish aelody as old and as lasting as the 
lills, We thought the audience would be precipitated) in- 
to the bar-room below, by the uproartous applause of voire, 
feet and hands, which followed this verse : 
‘Wiuwex the tide wintry wind 


Widly raves round onr dwelling, 


hat +} et es 
Ate the roar on Ui 


White thn mm rH 
Wil Bieta < ery 
\ t I i Onte 
’ J . > 
Ah, well-aslay }-— that was a * ood while ae. now: 


but the interval lias passed away like a dream of the 


might! 
lune Ge a danchable metoance. of *A Aono an 
Bifles* — + AS reverend 2 ‘th, WRG Vinton gM 


lanher hata océasion 19 tbe eourse of conversation co wer 


ViGeoianewh mime Oi Gr iit + isl 


the Bipre,and on asking for the ‘article, the master of the 


house ran to bring it, and came back with two leaves of 


the book in his hand. ‘TI declare” says he, ‘this is all 


we ‘ve vot in the house: Vd no idee we were so near out!’ 


S 


Tar wasn’t exactly the ‘right thing’ that Grorcr 
Waise esibadu,. senine cedtten. of tre: War Ol ais 
*Pieayune? daily journal, did down at the Brothers Tove 
pes’ private office, one pleasant mornime in May, when 
“Jivars, was Tis onor the Mayor” You. see, the. wax 
ef it was this: When Georcr went into the eountine- 
room, le asked for *The Mayor? ‘The Colonel? potted 
to the adjoining private office, or raised ‘sitting-roomn,? and 
said, ‘Ife “sin there: there ’s a delegation there from the 
female otlicers of * The Marrua Wasnincros Temperaiice 
Society, of which the Mayon? is the honorary President, 
‘Til eo in amd see hin? said Kexpreen. * Do, said ‘ule 
Colonel 2? + T guess they ’re about through; they ‘ve kent 
hiva talking there for some time now” Groner entered, 
his Meee a Tittle flushed, from a rapid walk down to Cli, 
yaoi t didas le did so, he was made aware of the tae 


Grae cot: (Wen, dozen Imploers, ak te * Misa 4 Sas 


Eveaee Thain Nesoaratattes ly. Sabeliik - COiVGrnes. Pen 
Wien tileawh- 2 Why. DR cape Sth ae grade, we pE! 
[presi eee ti Waly A eee A MEE. Tien ee Ne kat a 
t ‘ tae } 
ibe ik Wet ER tls Tied 7 hd abd 1 ‘ 


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Ween wr eed ny “GrreeEs 


ment, eve more flushed, if anything, thin Wexpaiis, 
(ieonGh Was received, bevoud a slight greeting froin + ili 
Mayor. with ominous silence; but he * knew lis) cotirse. 
‘Come, Hanrer, said he,*let*s go and wet avother drink : 
its ‘leven o'clock, he added, taking out lis watch ¢ + aint 
you dry agin’ Zamt? +The Mayor? says le had been 
ttuken aback? before; but the coolness and outrageous 
Hupudence of that * tack? could wt be beat) * The women 
looked dagwers while Kisspann was pretending to be hur 
rying me to go with him and take a drink called * Mera 


Suasion 2? 


Ao stosi cextrod nary production is + Lethans Bretish 
Gill Vt nest be, judeine trom the very remarkable cures 
Which it has effected, as set forth tn the proprietors ciren- 


lan Dos the faver te remark the follown 


i aes 


Jonas Ioparte, *f Giiwken's (otyt, St. olgamts, Bristol, wis ones 
{ eh } i H cht ineermueh tliat he was oldiged to ent 
pen Wis treekes wih a Bolte, in three thes drascing with tt *riisiy Wy 
ay AS tiny J ‘ 
Jog Mat Y Salt ’ Had a viol 
\ tiey itc % oe yy wie Potties, 
Ake f Mt? I" in ol 
is i ae j ot i 4 hy 
j ke | \ Ne C + t 
eA ee Rt Wittiess 
ce Day ad ie Co t tr 


JD W EEN OGnaean Seem et Ib yen ras les 


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ELIZABETH Stove, of Wellington, in the county of Salop, entirely lost 
the use of her hand in three times’ bathing with this Oil. Witness ler 
itil? ete, 

We have no hesitation in pronouncing these * very re- 
miarkable cures :° and to those who believe them to be 
veritable, we lave no hesitation in commending the * Oil 


I Guestion, 


Tur venerable Doctor Cox, of Brooklyn, was driving 


out in thoughtful mood the other day in a one-horse wag- 


on, In a uarrow street ia the suburbs of the town, when 


two wagons, one on each side, attempted to pass him. 
All three got stuck fast together, ‘so that they could not 
beanovéed?  Atter trying for some time, a crowd bevan to 
collect around, and Doctor Cox began to grow red in the 
fice, and to remonstrate in strony terms, and with mueh 
repetition, aguust the carelessness of one of the green de- 
linguents, At last the other rephed, (amd we suspect the 
wag must have known the Doctor) 1—L—T could mt 
help it: you Avow TL could wt: and what the d——1 is the 
use Of an old white-headed man like vou standing there, 
sevara’ at mein that way ¢--sweari’ at me for what T 


) = ) oy) 
evil ay help? 


a 


Whats the use of saearde, cv how? 
AP eek ute Wel. Wo tah ote Lilie tet ge ta dees 
course; smeara’ away at a fellow for what he did wt vo 


wy dol? The Doetor blushed, and looked a little 2uilty: 


AV Gaim: Ba jaye can oes 


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the charge was so outrageous, he eould n't help ity and it 
was made before a good many by-standers, who had often 
seen himin the pulpit. * Lb swear at you!” exclaimed the 
Doctor, in utter amazement.  *° Ye-dé-d-iis!? said the 
other, with prolonged and potent emphasis; tswearad at 
a fellow like a trooper, when he did n't vo to eet you 
stuck? The Doctor shrunk away abashed, being fairl 


driven from the eround. 


Bryant is remarkable for the *word-pletures! as) the 


Germans term i, which he strews se profisely tira his 


poetical writings: often, by the use of a single vernacular 
expression, bringme betore the reader the most distinct and 
delightful images,  Lonerentow possesses a kindred 
power, One hardiv knows, sometimes, how his *efheets? 
In artist-phrase, are produced bat a mice study of his han 
guage Will wenerally reveal ther souree, Observe the pie- 


tWresq@uencess, the Vari uy, the renkity of ECGTIG, couberisn: | 


In these few stanzas * 


EP Fo NG ONS AVR, co See EOP Ne as) 


In some fur-oif, bright Azore, 
From Balin. and the dashing, 
Silver-flashing 


Surges of San Salvador, 


‘From the tumbling surf. that buries 
The Orkneyan Skerries. 
Answering the hoarse Hebrides: 
And from wrecks of ships, and drirting 
Spars, nplifting 


On the desmate. rahiy seas, 


- Ever drifting, dvitting, drifting 
On the shifting 

Currents of the restless main 

Till in sheltered caves, and reaches 
Of sandy beaches, 

All have foand repose againe 


Ho you remark, reader, the wide orasp, the lite, action, 


visible motion, that pervade these lines sees Hieece CON POse é 

; Hs ined et miaeeelt) ayaa tase ae hl Be a a: ‘ 
stiecession of “ marme Views” as piupaoie to sight as the 
colorings of the pencil. 


Tru sea-serpent has been discovered again by an Ene- 
list captun, officers and crew; and the Wlusirated London 
jours contain portraits, “halésize? aud ‘fulblene:h! of 


his stuckeship, accompanied by minute and muthentionted 
descripuions ot his ‘person’ and movements. We have 
been ted to believe, from our own experience, that one may 


be very easily deceived in these water-reptiles. Toward 


ISS: ie Mae ee ee, 


the twilight of a still dav, near the end of July, 1847, 
Horack Greenery and * OJd WKxiek. hereof, were seated 
on the broad piazza of the dark-yellow * Mission-TTous«’ 
raul Michilimackinac, looking out upon the deep, deep blae 
waters of the Huron, when an object, apparently near the 
shore, suddenly attracted our attention, We both ex- 
amined it through a good e@lass, and came to the mutual 
conclusion that it was an enormous sea-serpent, elevating its 
head, widtdating its hamps, and ‘floating many a rood” 
upon the translucent Strait. Such also was the opinion of 
the proprietor of the * Mission House? who ina ten vears’ 
residence at) Mackinaw lind) uever seen the like letore, 
‘Away went Horace, and away’ went * Old Kapok? ater 
him, down to the shore: amd but for most tremendots 
kangaroo bonnds ton behalf of the party of the first party 
apd a shy¢ht sticking in the mud of an initerventne marsh, 
i 


eon the part of the party of the second part? * this alepo- 


pent afiinms sad vertiy believes” that this deponent would 
have reached the beach atoresaid as soon us he. the said 
Horacn did. When we had arrived, lot the object which 
had so excited our enriosity wee nothing more than the dark 
side of a dene undulating. unbroken wave, browelt inte 


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cher relief by the level western lieht Which the si tad 
ety in dus track as he dropped away over Lake Mien 
We felt rather *clieap? as we came along lack towdlinr; 


nnd * allowedl? that if they'd seen at Nahant what we 


—~! 


ial Doe ae eee Be cam ba AAI De iS 


had at Mackinac, they “d have sworn that it was the sea- 


serpent. * Catch vey doing any thing o° that kind .? ete. 


PxkNew an old inan, writes a correspondent, * who 
believed that ct what was to be would be? THe lived im 
Missoun, aud was one day going out several miles through 
a region Infested, in the early times, by very savage Indians. 
He always took lis gun with lain, bar this time he found 
that some of the family had it out. As he would not yo 
Without it, some of his friends tantalized lim by saving 
that there was ‘no danger of the Indians;’ that. he 
‘would not die until his time had come ete.  * Yes! says 


the old fellow, + but suppose [was to meet an Indian, and 


his time had come, it would ut do uot to have my gail? 


Tusapen, by your leave, we will give vou some *tenves,” 
ws we sitin the light of a transcendent morning, not vet 


Teed fee law) ten 1 | ie] ads Te Tae Pee ees chy ea tri : a ne 
PE Sh WACO its Slory, Survey 1S wienever, for a ml. 


tent. the music of the pen ceises — from an Upper Wit 
daw of the * Pine Orchard Tlouse? the maeniticent scene 


sore ot below. Ac wlite foosserpent. a liundred nites 


Ph tenet. is wieliudetine lus Tainps alone the PDadson. and 


with trend Ci ike is Wovibes emul ialhy wit daoacentel! | Nias 


The elouds, bern of vesterday’s shower down the mouwn- 


188 Tire KA ATS EI ESS 


tain, arose bright beneath us this morning, havine washed 


ther faees elean in ther own ram during the wight % aud 


low, saturate with suntioht, like 


lamer tar I 


now they 


minted billows of thoating cotton, Toward 


Teany, 


ate 


por 


chance, they will gather together again, aud tleckine with 
shadows the wide expanse beneath them. as they sail 


tlone, suddenly pause and ‘discharwe their carsal the 


husbandman rejoicing the whale. that at last. 


Tre 2 rod storm is ripe, the bie drens fil 
And Sun-buimt meadows smeke, and (ink the 
We have just been faneving the prospects of wrendear 


] beauty Which Tony he comunanded 


een 


tipped mountains that bound the view on the morta and 
ist — the Green Mountains of Vermont, old) Me 
nd t nue itis. of 4 . , whieh Pisa, We 


ihesprona 


! Tort— the w 


4] } 
Le AOrnoL Des LPHVOReE ah 
i : 
+ 1 i \ ” “1 io its re ‘ oa ee 
lalds, the peoyecd + ees, hurarming with brisy mast, 
‘ 1 1 | } | 
‘ mo at &. dnd Wile chu SUpen which 
aan a knervs, and nehiwens 
j- PRO imbaie tins mowntsar ae? 
! 
Low ! Z BaOHeCSS WHO el 
! iN HS sis I BUD 1 MIS TA Yeas 
’ : He Wie ihe 4 s Pe.” AVON. eas 


TAU DARE UiPAaSst tk Che ALY Je ee 


Liman, with a sandy peruke, waiks abet 


a ped-tose 


ip 9) 
ee 


TEAC INES Rake TOMI Ack Sortak scr tS 


the few small and dusty patches of faded green, (called 


‘parks .°) and tapping the rechning pedestrian with his 


baton, points to a by-law of the city’s fathers, suspended 
trom a stunted tree, where frowns denouncingly, * veep off 
the Grass!’ There, the qgutteral airs, hot and sultry, 
would penetrate the obtusest olfactory, though guarded by 
a dense moustache, bristling ‘like the horns of a centi- 
pedes? airs embracing every variety of mauvacse odeur, 
trom the green mantle of the standing pool, to the most 
piquant cat-efluvia. Here, on the other hand, the whole 
city, placed on the vast plain below, would dwindle to a 
speck, and all the nations of the worllinight there stand 
assembled, without jostling. Tere, there is no elaborate 


dirt. Here, the mountain wind, 


‘Most spiritual thing of all the wide earth knows, 


DS 


would well-nigh revive the dving. But we are forgetting 


that the hadtslalls need not our poor blazon, 


‘Dip vou know Doctor Weir ?? asked an inquisitive 
gentleman in one of the Philadelphia ears, of a North- 
ampton country Dutchinan. ‘ Doctor Vexur 2? he replied : 
Swell den, vats, ] karow'dl him a hitthe. T seen him oneet. 
We was on dat shteam-poat vat vash plow'd wp mit te 


piler bustin’ by Pittsburgh dere: and wen TP vash goin 


190 “A 2 Aw ee a A ipa ee 


on de shore by de plank, he and de shmoke-pipe vash com- 


in’ down, L never seen dit pefore nor since 1? 


Tris ‘wooden country * of ours is really beginning to 
be thoneht something of ‘on the other side!? As the 
English cockney said of Niagara Falls, ‘itis very clever? 
very) 7 Astenteat—let us think how many at this mo- 
ment are *on the seas’ approaching our shores! Every 
hour on the coasts of the old) world representatives trom 
the different nations of the earth are depurtinw tor its re- 
public: every our some vessel crowded with oxiles from 
tempestnous kingdoms and principalities is tearing our 
shores, or, while the “shouting seaman ciimls and furls 


the sail? in our harbor is buadine its human frei 


our piers, Come along, future ‘fellow-cttizens)” We 
hive thousands of square miles where the epidermis of the 
earth has never heen seratehed, Phere is room enews 


and there is work enovekh for all: nor on ties side of the 


‘hig brook * shall anv ef you ‘come moh to perish with 


: | y . . . 
Liv, Wo Ve able Misay, fom ar Agere. ai 
¥ . 


Suppose vou dust nim your eve over this aesdete «A 


t(usching: Peta a halfacitied ccuntry wioelit, elit 


Nee leet Cty ie Mere A Nena lis tke 1G 


standing jest of a litthe town in Connecticut, who came 
home one rainy Saturday night, so ‘darkly, deeply, beau- 
tifully Bue, that he went to bed with lis hat and boots 
on. and his old cotton umbrella under Jus arm. IIe got 
up about two o'clock the next afteruoon, drunk with last 
nl 
B 


of a very comprehensive body of Hopkinsian divinity, 


at, and took his way to the meeting-house, Rev. Dr. 


<> 


was at his‘ 17thly, in the second of six divisions 


when ‘ Guzzling Pere” entered the church, with an egg in 
each hand. Tle saw, as throngh a glass darkly, and with 
evident commiseration, a man in’ black, very red im the 
face, for the day was oppressivery warm, who seemed to 
utter something with a great deal of vehemence, while a 
considerable number of those underneath him were fast 
asleep; among them Deacon C —, with Jus shinv-bald 


>. ’ 


head leaning against the wall, Pere, unobserved hy the 
minister, lalanced his ere, and with tolerable ain. 
plastered ‘ts contents directly above the Deacou’s pate! 
Hearing the concussion, the werthy diving paused in his 
discourse, asl looked daggers at the maudlin visiter, 
‘Never mind, uncle,’ exclaimed the intruder: ‘jest vou go 
Oy! a-tutkin BM heep Wary awake por You 2 By bytes 
time the congregation were thoroughly aroused. ‘Mr 
L ——. «ud the reverend pastor, with a seuming charity, 
Which in dis mortitieation he could scarcely have tel, and, 


addressing 7° fiding-man, “near the «loor, “May 4. 


1a Sick RS i ok ree Heer iro: 


wont vou have the kanduess to remove that poor erenne 
frora the aisle? I -fear’ that he ds sick”: cA? Shane 
mered our qualmish hero, as he began to coutirin the fears 
ef the clergyman by very active symptoms y ‘seek: 

ves.and it’s enough to make a doy sick, tot sit’ under such 
preachin’ as vourn: it ‘s more ‘h L can stand under! 


Yes, take me out: the quicker the better!” 


Wr often pause beneath the laltelosed blinds of some 
public hospital. and picture to ourself the gloomy aud morn 


ful seenes that are passing within. The sudden movement of 


a taper, as its feeble ray shoots from the thicklyset whidaws, 


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until its light gradualiv Hsappears, as if it were carried 


1 , 


4] 7 +. & 7 a} } ee aye 
fartuer back into the Poom., TO Ube bea-spde OT some Ser 
“ * 5 1 ) , ae 

ng patwut, i enoigh to awaken a whoe crowd of poilee- 


tions: the mere clmmernme of the low-liuriine Lvnarpesy 


es ; i See ee ee a es. 

which, when ail other habitations are wrapped in diarla ss 
With pain, or wasting with disease, is sullewnt 
to check the moat bolsterous merronient, Wi ents 


tell the aeetuish of ihose waary Hotre: whsn Gike ae 


fs Samer ag ei a . 
cen the sick Wan hears, is the disjointed wandemngs ef 
rae feerirish sham pare hiv of! | : i psa 
She FePSial Sliamoarer ear hime. Tas bow Eee ea pees, 


or pertips the mntieréd, Lone-fopyrotion praver aff ely jase 


men’ Whe bnt those who lave tele it. can imate the 


Dimers. busi ak Gum £93 


sense of loneliness and desolation which must be the por- 
tion of these who in the hour of dangerous illness are left 
to be tended by strangers : for what hands, be they ever 
so gentle, can wipe the clammy brew, or smooth the rest- 


less bed, like those of mother, wite, or child ? 


TuERE are very few persons in the Empire State who 
have not heard of Enrisua Wertrams, the eminent adyo- 
eate, of Columbia county. A friend has just mentioned 
tous an anecdote of him which is well worth recording, 
Ie had been listening to an antagonist who was rather a 
dull speaker, and who had infused into his summing-up a 
vast deal of fustian. Mr. Witttams rose when he had 
finished, and said: ‘Gentlemen of the jurv, if I did not 
feel strong in the justice of my cause, I should fear the 
effvct upon you of the eloquent harangue to which you 
have just listened. That, gentlemen, was a splendid, a 
magnineent perlormance, TL admire that speech, gentle- 
nen of the jurv—TL e¢dvays admired it. I admired that 
speorn when Twas a boy 1’ Ttis needless perliaps to add, 


that this compliment was not lost upon the juty, 


‘THers goes the old Dutchman who had the danger- 


ous geese!’ exclaimed a friend in the country the other 


ae RO Darron ss tose 


day, calling onr attention to a Dutehman of the oldest 
‘school, who was walking slowly along the road. Wa 
asked an explanation : * Why, when the Yankees first bees 
to settle in here, he was joined one morning by a slide 
sided specimen of ’em, as he was picking up the quills 
that his geese had dropped, in their chattering morning 
waddles, by the edges cf an oblong pond at the road-side. 
Presently one of the geese stretched out his lone neck at 
the Yankee, who started and ran as if a mad dog were at 
his heels. ‘I dold him, said the old Dutchman, * net to he 
avraid ; dat de geese would n't hurt um any; but de cees: 
did run after him dough, clear over de dill a-wavs: and 
none of “em would n't give uin no rest any more, when: 
ever he come along the sdreet. I p'leve dey lial a shite 
agin de Yankees. Mein Gorr! its curious, dough, but 
de geess always went away, and didavt come back any 
more!’ The seeret of that was, that the Yankee, who 
was so afraid of the Dutchman's geese, had thrown out 
kernels of corn, among which was one with a fisli-loolk 


attached. Once swallowed, the angry goose was soon in 


tow after the fying fieritive, 


‘Tie subject of the folowing anecdote” wries a 
friend, Sis an oll and respectable pliysician, who is new a 


very strenuous temperance man, although in his young days 


‘Visthip ce Resexce™- of Daoata. 05 


he sometimes ‘ patronised the groceries’ over much. On 
one occasion, having indulged very freely in a variety of 
spirituous decoctions with some boon-eompanions, he 
mounted his mare and started for home. He had not 
gone far before the inconsiderate * commingling of spirits’ 
in his stomach eave rise to such a furious rebelliou that he 


So 


was fain to dismount and come to an anchor against 

Si i sala ea i i aia nln 
of upheaval that was truly alarming, While engaged in 
these spasmociie efforts at relief, he was aceosted Ly a tray- 
eller, who, with true Yankee solicitude, enquired what was 
the matter. The inebriate, in an interval of his paroxvsms, 
eruffly replied, that he ‘had traded horses, and was ¢cry 


sick of his bargain !? 


‘Trene is perhaps no feeling of our nature so vague, 
so complicated, so mysterious, as that with which we look 
upon the cold remains of our fellow-mortals. The dignity 
with which Deara invests the meanest of his victims in- 
spires us with an awe that no hying thing can create. 
The monarch on his throne sinks beneath the beewar in 
his sliroud. The marble features, the powerless hand, the 
sti ned Himb—olt, who ean contemplate these with foelines 
that ei bee defined >. “These are the mockery of all our 
hopes and fears——our fondest love, our fellust hate. Can 


it be that we now shrink almost with horror from the 


106 PV reteue PRRAER Ge OOP ae ae 


touch of the hand that but yesterday was fond]y chosped 
in our own? Is that tongue, whose aeceuts even now 
dwell in our ears, for ever chamed in the silence of death? 
Those dark and heavy eye-lids, are they for ever to seal up 
in darkness the eyes whose glance no earthly power could 
restrain?) And the Spree which animated that elay, 
where is it vow?) Does it witness our erief 2 does it share 


our sorrow ? 


mortality broken forever? And remembrances of earthly 


Or is the mysterious tie that Jinked it with 


scenes, ie they to the enfranchised spirit: as the morning 


drenm or the fading cloud 2? Its? tall that we Avia is, 
nothing en be knowns until we ourselves shall lave passed 


the dread ordeal! 


NURAD BE ee ae ba ie 


RPO TN “MALT RRGSSOM FA MIROVGIT RIESS OD COMPA RATING hawGeeney § 
SWE das sites Ok STON SANE PR Suaityy "UPR CASEI Cee «A PNA NM | = gs 


SISEI Mise > OA, PSOE -SEMT:” EN NUIARI RO Mee SOT ONE SD Vee Am, 


PAE “<A LER S AN XMATEUE-FISNEEAS.S CRAMS AN) TT my OW VRE 


LEGS TMG ON DR TAIN DIE 2 TE ALAS BERR moi! ai Looe 
AGUA ED be TiN hesinwa: * BX EMCI PN) Tne sie. 
1 Net Brossom of Canandaigua did love a joke for the 
Joke’s sake! We must mention one, Lobsters were 
formerly quite scarce at Canandaigua, on account of their 
net ae found in the waters of Canandaigua Lake, nor in 
the streams circunjacent.  Brossom had been to the city, 
procured a tine one, packed it carefully, and took it home 
with him. The fact was duly proclaimed, the lobster 
boiled, lis friends invited —and the supper came off. 
There was a quaint, dogmatical old fellow, a shoe-maker 
maned Jomuxsox, an authority in the village, who had 
lost all Ins teeth but two, and those were in opposite sec- 
tious of lis mouth. Te had never seen a lobster, nor diced 
the slivhtest idea of what kind of an animal it was. 
Diossom, upping the wink to his confréres, helped him to 


one of the cluws, Sas large as a stone, and about as hard, 


“Tow «do vow eat the “tarnal thine, any lew?" said 


igs A Pore 28 °F eer by oe 


Joussox, *Q go right ahead with it, replicd Brossom. 
‘just as itis: need n't be afraid of it: do mt want any 
Si asonine. 

Atter very diligent but somewhat protracted: eitorts., 
the old man succeeded in drilling a hole, and establshine a 
suck, gota taste of the interior, Seeing this position of 
aifiirs, Brossom, with the most imperturbable oravity, in- 
qtired: * Well) how do vou get alone ¢— how do von 
like it ?> * Waal? said the old man, * 1 kind o° like the 
peth on tl? The eompany only smiled; they did at 
lawgh, until the old gentleman left: and he dent know 
about it to this day —they were so polite and 


any thin 
well bred! 
Biossom’s spurit must linger about Canandaicua vet, 


A friend of ours stopped 


trac) 


dressed votuue gwentieman entered, and stepping within the 
areas, paanted pimselt directly in front of ome of the <en- 
~ PO - : ' 

figinen enioving his Havana who waa expeclorating If 
tween his Jews, on. either sate, i 


Curves. ANG. AS 16 Were, i a tt Of desperation, Sher QR 


inning a. Hii -suppiy, in -a direct sfriaeht dines ies 
} ya , fo ‘ee I 

\ daw top ie the dacherere. niet cane 

150 Wk Shit ou io Ui sturh Wolrss ancer Rit 


oPawarives he NGEVITY. 


GAL aud, of ours ‘hte lahat day was about en- 
iz <idaibenasier's oe in ies when a stents 


See ar Fine ahisae a very eae } 
you think I gave for the pair!’ ‘T guess you 
note!” said G——. ‘Good mawning!? re- 


| How old was Metnesenatt before he had 
iM oats?” What time did he leave off wear- 
> Te may have been a ‘hard boy? at four 
wnt tas exibited: inn cpa even Ane 


a ‘aan raat says 5 Ue are Pibae ani 2 
Ww, which live only one day. Those then that die ae 
eighth hour, dies at an advanced awe s those that a 

ul stinsef, at a aay old) age. Compare our jongest 


an 


- feet aud ee sa we found almost a 


200 DiNG-Siv Go) Ses R UP eis 


le the unhappy veung ian who has receniy Heed 


the journals of the imetropolis with the details of his fois 


and crime could, before yielding to temptations have 


> 


ot ae ee self 


looked in upon the state-prisoners at Sing-Sin 
the other day, surely le would have shrunk back trom 
the vortex before him. Poor wretches, in their best es- 
tite! Jlow narrow their cells: low ceaseless their toil: 
what n negation of comfort their whole condition! ft 


was a sweltering August day. breathless and oppressive : 
but there was no rest for the cieht humdred vi tispia cen 

Viets who pled their never-endin 
Stealthy glances from halfraised eyes; vale cotati s 


stinger 


v }- Wee ae os ial ee a 
with meek submission, or @leuminge with mower 
less hate or impotent ae y s and “hare ada” sal ies 
fullest sense: were the inain features of the tii ile eee 
ee ace, Be Oey. Rey eee Sea ee Pt-ige Fey, 
aS Wet Passcu DEP Lorre’ tae Several Work ALM Be ytan buat 
a pieture was presented. as their ceciypeaits cate sw apniis 
} | year nf ] veiGeh fat Pe Pi cut ' Pann 
Inte the open court-vard at the sound of the bedi, to pane 


ceml to them eels with ther dinner! From the dick ata 


sphere of the carpet and roy shops, leaving the elack of 
shuttles, the dull thump of the * weavers | bean? aml tin 
long, confused perspective of cords, and yaulties, and- qed 
terns. and “multriudmons “harness.” ‘des “pond Gen 


from murky smithys, streamed the ips of Wut ae eae 


as the durk recesses trom which toev enverged ¢ frome dace 


SanwG Sie Soh ates? pes Oy 201 


Which Open Upon Interminabie rows of elose-set benches 
burst forth the knuivlite of the awl and hammer: the ruc 
edb ef the coopers mallet, the creak of is shiaving- 
kuite, were still; the stone-hammer was silent; and the 
court-vard was full of th: ped crew! ey tin 
COMANCHE SVAS TE Ot? haut SUrlpoci ROW «OD Of com 
Aaa ; ' ; 
passiou) what a sight it was, to see that motley multitide 


iy 
take up, in gangs, their humiliating march? Iluge ne- 
aroes, weltering in the heat, were tuterspersed among 
the lines; > diauds crimson with murder rested upon the 
shoulders of beings voung alike in years and crime; the 
victim of bestiality pressed agianst the heart-broken tool 
of the scathless villains and adZ were blended in one re- 


Volting uniss of trained soldiers of guilty their thousand 


leas ineving as the lee of one man: all in silence, save 


the peetliar sound of the siding tread. erating not less 


Hpou the ear than the ground. One by one, they took 
their wooden pails of dingy and amphibious-looking food, 
aint possed on, winding up the stuns of the diferent sto- 
ies, abel xtronmine along the narrow corridors to thei 
cay Geils, 

It Was altogether too much for the tender heart of 
Liioal eo sbe tte See SS long PPoeEss1U1L of the SRC OE NG ‘fey 
yesh OF Tn show stceession, ler lip Levan Lo ever ¢ nays 
one alter another drops of pity rolled dew ler cheeks: 
siewrs, sileur tears 37 but they will be held) mm remei: 


Lrsuice, 


202 Tepe! Are” om Boars: 


Revivep a good inany pleasant memories to-day, in a 
walk along the Croton aqueduct, to the charming * Sunny- 
side’ of Grorrrey Crayox., Along where we once so 
ofien walked on the same agreeable errand, there have 
lately sprung up two or three small villages. We found farm- 
ers Inowing the aqueduct: in several places where it rus 
through meadows; clipping its steep slopes to the very 
top. *Old Kwick. went down the grassy declivity, and 
asked permission of a farmer, acnobleman of mature to 
mow a littl. The favor was readily granted. With the 
Inemory of a recent achievement of the same kind freshly 
in qnind, the jotter-down diereof addressed himself to dis 
pleasurable task: first whetting aif the seythe, ‘trom heel 
to print, after the approved manner of that preparatory 
exercise, and then straddling torth to the mowine, After 
afew vigorous cuts with the sevthe, we became aware of 
some doubts in the mind of the @entleman whose instru- 
ment we were, as we fancied, very dexterously wielding. 
Hlis first words mortified us. We were doing our best. 
We looked for encouragement + we may say, indeed, that 
we fully expected applause. Judge, then, what must have 
been our surprise to hear these words, uttered in a tone 
whieh was searcely [ess unerateful than the language 
which conveyed the *expression of the idea by articulate 


sounds -° ‘You do wt know nothin’ about mowi')* We 


y thing; in our sate o mowin’, in these sees 
renerally care to siee the stones off like a cow. 


You ean't mow! Fust place, you stand too fur 
You Cd break vour back in an hour, thet way Wear 


es You do mt come up to your work: why do mt i ay 

up to your work?" Come up to our work /—_ a 
ome up!’ We went out of that meadow, after 

ealled-tor remarks, with a very indifferent opinion: 
>of mowing in that neighborhood, We did n't 
Kindly upon their style of mowing, although 

ntially different from ours; then why should 

= sBpoateths criticise ours? We did our best, in our 
— We left the rows of sweet-scented hay-cocks. 
ested hay-wagons, the horses switching their tails and 

+ the new-cut grass, with a feeling of sincere re- 
mere envy of so simple a thing as that of a su- 
style of cutting grass with a scythe should be per- 
d to embitter the thoughts of the two husbandmen, _ 
for some reason or other, we fancied to be saps a 
between themselves as we came away. We inferred | 
n a remark they made’ ‘Guess he by 2a 
mow—he seemed to!) 


Eee 8h Fan ate ee 4 


a 


id te 


204 A? Sitar pb iG aren’ stave ew 


We had mans delshiful thimes to remermibwet cs 
we came away from Sunuyside, by the dusty and toisy 
Hudson River Railroad, the uesxt morning. a pre- 
protracted sitting with our hostpand other the Tike agree 
able persons, with much memorable discourse tm pleasant 
sleep in the ‘spare room” for a spare man, iuterrap tend 


lead waste and iniddie of the 


only by a visit, in the * 
miohty from the vhost of the lady who * died of tove and 
vreen apples’ in the old Vay Passe. mansion, ete but 
our pleasant reminiscences were interripted and onr fee: 


by the shieating remarks of thease, Parry tawil 


liwh, We isa; Bione LOG nhe Of Lhe toroboty & | EEN ay 
iaveen Didar. his. Ferry and ‘Sunnyside Gotteor? Fie 


farmers wre too conceited —— too much wedded ts ale ob- 


SeTVANCeOS, 


Paar wre a somewhat cool reply which was @h 


4, border toa landiard in San Pranciseo, wine tie aah 
lum for the famount of his httle bill! + You dace aye 
we gearsin, been boardine with. me.forle mine ane al 
have net troubled vou; but I arm now = PGUSLY Say) 
of the money, Bxery thing | purcoase for fhe hyase i 


fe THEI 


i tivtires and [realy can’t afford tol he iota see 


ill any loner! (ant afyor? 1 > exelainpedd ipl aie) 


Mii Wis PO Sess 205 


wplient 2° then whe the d——1 do n't you sell out to some 


body that ea attord it? Lhet*s your best way 1? 


Has the city reader ever passed along Chatham 
Square, and through the street from which it derives. its 
tune, without hearing the eternal din of hammers closing 
Darcuns up. aud the uprowious vociterations of the opera: 
tors ¢— noises that, breaking upon the ear of a passer-by. 
who aay be indulging the luxury of his own quia 
thonght~. suddenly recall vivid ideas of Bedlam 3 an im 
pression that is amply eonfirmed, by a glanes at the shop's 
ievior, where stands a lonely man, loaniine at the mont it, 
siwine tie wr with his hand, and inaking the dirty coun 
fer betore hin to resound aot with the noise of his mial- 
les “hie stieeetocrierr’ 1s Of anether cade. “aus sliall 
see dies eve ol a ocoll winter mrormiine, buttowed to the 
Horert, cl ia waistcoat or a pair of wawhisperables whisk- 


fie ete done stielky which le lolds inlis hand, while 


Lo Seaeneiiee wt the pedestrian anditercs who sonretnties 


Geioee atin in passing, * Tweat-— “five l® Thine’ thirt 
dy Mie er themiepenis < Miashe ppative tins: dried 
Dian eacr Toa ton ae eNOS Sad UE Mats os, Lea Seta 


dyost distin onished of mactioneers, is the veader of oil-perne 
Ines? and the class has greatly multiplied, since it has beer 


ascertained that at least an hundred ‘orton pictaress on 


206 ‘Ops way Prert ® espe Grae. 


one and the same subject. and by the same renowned 
Hidtstery Tay be sold here trom one auction mrt. gtatih 
SMTA speaks of aman who, having disposed of a petritied 
lobster, which he had accidently found, at a great bargain, 
stratghtway set about the manutacture of the article, and 
drove a wholesale trade in that unique tine. The picture: 
Veuder aets upon this hint, aud te sueceeds equedly well. 
He deals in’ das, well preserved + Tum-bres, of the first 
water, TLoGanry, we remember, has a picture of Time, 
with a pipe in his mouth, whifling smoky antiquity upon 
aftresl painting, Your modern picture-venders better mui- 
derstand the matter, We have recently read. in some of 
our periodieats, a brief account of the knowledae of art 
and the creat artists which they display, but it did) met 
come up to the reality. The great stecessor of Madame 
Mararror, who thourished in England some tem or twelve 
vears age, could alone, were she smony us, do justice to the 
autioneer of modem paintings | Vv the old masters. * Tere, 
he exclaims, holding up a rather confused and mottled 
composition, “is a splen Ud pictur’, by a very ancient mas- 
ter of arts. You see the frame is old and worm-eaten, and 
there is the year £152S* on the back of it. It is the in- 
terior of a cathedral in Spain, or else in Italy. They are 
a-worshippin’ inside: the priest, up by the candles, is very 
much ineensed with the smoke that the hovs is a-whirlin’ 


round his head: and the qnire ‘s a-singin’ a tedini: tut 


‘ keeps his celebrated bulls. What ’s bid for “t 2 
» hundred dollars named, to start it? Five hun- 
Lhear?? This is struck down to a spectator at 


-end of the room, and another rises to view, 
naked figures in the fore-ground: backed by 


gem of painting, yen'lemen, is a chefdowver of De 
his celebrated * Adam and Eve expulsed from Pa- 
> Ts three hundred dollars bid for this? Tt was 
y six hundred guineas in London! Is jifty dollars 
. | Fifty -—tifty — going | Yours, Mr. Scexepts.’ 

ie: fallowed by a painting which seemed to repre- 


A 


2s eHeére;-now,.2s actrosetre} Tip i a 


— iad on a i eased aa same 
1 at night with a wet nurse, and died of the 
e-throat, I did n’t hear of this in time to put 


205 Asx. Awan to ee) cei BR wees 
Wi rene oer ty lave SCC? GEN IK celiite Oy iti ertliest- 


} we ee Per a . a) . . ay : ‘ 
Peet GUL IOROTany ,OFEr 4T tHe Petry bl gs, 1 AEROS aes 


y 


advantage was taken by every huckster of pieimins tor 


weues around him: smd his love of being deesived, aay 
he wathered from the fallowing colloquy with an anmtenr 
freml: "Come up and see me to-morrow, mv boy, aid 
f7i/ show vou a picture that es a plieture — an uideontted 
onaiual DL owant vour untiassed judgment of it Tirpvs 
Sura was over to look at it, vesterday, and diad the im- 
pudence to say that 1 was a copy—the ignerant runs! 
By Jove l Ld like any other man to vell ine se> 1a 


+ ) Ses foals 


me. i T shouldn't be tempted to knock ham dower) “ni 
CHMne Up TO-Morrow, And OIVe US VOUT CANT neh ay 
4 ? 1 s7 1 Fy s Endl SS a 5 
ms teers, Vd ike to know what wow thine Was 


1 1 : * 
Cait: 2S- TD dorks, We Prestige, PoaAL Toe pein 


hist ‘ 12 Li an t i; VW vy 
j 
Peet 2 ONG OF Tire’ she: CIShMIGe Ot ce eerie 
f j ; ' ‘ 
i uy >i i Bis. Ant Fea Teas Ny 
| nig — 7 ‘cen 
’ i 
I { Le i bah 
esd perrifie * Glass House Rocka? ies ars 
5 , , 
li i sire, “hue Leng SUSMIEGRARH A. Thea Wa i 
o« 7 ; 
s S My a Pepa. GS CFR wy Min p We fretion Wie 


eae AE ie ecotust ee Seiraonte MAE 7 209 


our pleasiut party. fishing in the Caligoon and Shinglexil 
One there was of us, a ‘personable’ youth, with siky 
moustache, and *dark-locks flowing free,” who would lave 
led more trout to taste his hook, but tor his habili- 


iivel 


ments. The ‘fashionable plaid’ ‘clock ’-stockings, of a 
pink stripe, and patent-leather shoes adorned lis lower 
ncanbers : heuee, aecoutred as he was, ‘Old IKswick. * i 
rustie carb, thick-booted to the thighs’ Tstening to his 
urgent solicitations tu be borne across the deep and boil- 
ing brook, did essay to do that same. ‘As slyeas dil 
Ascnises bear he took the youth upon lis back and sei 
forth tor the other side. Now it so chanced (quite as uncx- 
peetedly as the elder Wenten’s upset of the coach-load of 
voters) that when arrived at the deepest and most tumultu- 
ous part of the stream, an unlucky misstep, and some little 
futiene, compelled the ‘writer hereof? although against 
Vehement remonstrance, to set his burthen down! ITave 
Highectnso“sortyy foreséveral yéars..as we were at that 
Facchdenty and so we remarked at the time, bat with very 
litth: elect, we thought, to the ‘complainanty after he had 
serunbled up the bank, through the tangled bushes, nid 


sat croukurg on an old log, a ‘dem’d moist, unpleasant 


bore ly ‘ ; 


Brees ‘a-crabbine? to-day, off the little narrow doe 


at Dorws. What Senme® they are, those sprawilie shel 


210 (eA tSe AVR CFR RoW eae 


fis!) Vhey CH bite any thing, from an old ray up tea 
reed piece of meat. They are not * what you may cull 
a han’sum critters” they eannot be deemed an + ora- 
ment to society. They are better ‘as a meat’ than asa 
personal friend and companion. This ‘red right hand? 
bears witness of that, You eannot touch a erab’s bet- 
ter PATS: *Jeastways’ we could mt. The one we 
tried we thought a model-specimen; but) he pinched, 
seratched, ‘dug inf and held oni” upon ws, too, who de- 
fended his whole race down at Fire-Isliand one diy — one 
Fourth of July. There was a broad sliallow tub of water 
that was full of them, in the shade of the louse: and 
there they floated and sprawled, in trne ‘independence? 
fashion, When their chuws were extended, was of loys 
would set fire-erackers on eud in their joists, which they 
woull firinly grasp, Sright end up with care? Inte the 
claws of a big Jobster, floating in them midst, a+ Tiarox 
ainong minnows, the boys placed an ereet wooden pistol, 
with a slow mateh, made of a *eracker’ having daedi- 
ate connection with the touch-hole, This wis the ‘orent 
eon’ of the qoarine peurty. This ninskerd piscutertn Noe 
ino-battery was topernted’ atone and the same tine, and 
aovietim dropped (te the bottom of the tub) at every =ne- 
cessive discharge, We thought this cruel sport ab ideo 
ime: burt by this band* we think now that iv*sepved 


ron vierht ; 


AG Xe TNC ke MELD ober nD nee. 2A 


Wer have mt heard ina good while of a more amus- 
ing take-in than was performed by an auctioneer in a 
sinall village of ‘Down East? A fiddle had just been 
bidden off ata thigh figure’ by a ‘cute Yankee: but the 
wuctionecr was euter still, * Wow muel’ said he, after 
pissing the buyer his purchase, how much *mottered for 
the bow 2—)how auch ?7—how much Cinotlered for rie 
pow 7) *Tfellot yout—that ’s wine /? said the aston- 
ished purchaser. * Wal, that gy rich}? replied the aue- 
tioneer —' decidedly vicht Guess you must be from the 
keVutry. Who bids for the Gow’ How much “mottered 
tor the bow ?7—how much 2 how inuch for the bow 2 A- 
bat ny uatfy nat: Pass up your change, vou lazy devil: 
vou would wt a-come in, “xpect, except to eit edut o” the 
sun. (rttess vou must be from the kedntry. How much 
‘uotiered tor the bow 7 The bow was finally bid off lw a 
shrewd Dy-stander, who saw a chance for a little *speey 
abd sold to the victim who had bouzht the tiddle, at a laree 


tdvanee on the orivinal cost. 


c=) 


Vo he on “earth “worntere > to Lemire in. ihe eld 
eyouned and forgotten: to solve the erent amvetecy of the 
emive { low we shrink from it!—lew the best start ap- 


palled at the thought 1 OW ee* last heme woos thee these 


aa at Bani ee: SE ie 


ths 
de 


wo words fall upon the susceptible heart’ “To ous ths 
‘ought Is so limpressive. that if, on leaving an apartivent 
some dwelling that we may never visit again, the iden 
ocears tous that we are leaving it for the last time. we re- 
tirn at once to give the He to our fears} and so in bidding 
turewell ton friend. if we are reminded by this) spectre ef 
‘ihe dest time” we make ita point to see him onee more, 
and bid lim again, as if by aceident. a tasty and. less 
formal adieu. Tt is astonishing drow this idea of death wail 
permeate the brain, Looking, for exainple. at a ¢leek, you 
wonder when that drour-hand or that mitute-hand shin 

mark the end of your pilerimage : when each sled) stom: 
When with vows time shali be no longer? and *the shadow 
shill Ber book pan the dial’ And as WAREE theporks with tase: 
] 


manewes oof the sea- 


vou recall the thouswid places, in alle 
sons, Where thoughts of ‘the iast bitter howr?’ have come 
Upon ver: in the old wildernesses > by the solemi: shore of 
ocean, Where silent aud theughtiul vou have walied alate 
or gazing from seme tots HOUT tntop ab the eat <n 
in the brehtness of Lis rising. or cloud-curtained. sinkinee 


stowly in tie evening west; or at the moow career m 


rall her attendant start tl 


the firmament ef mehr wit 


these, over-living ang moving, and full of dhe thomet thes 


have *ermiuded us & thonsand tinves ud’ « 
‘Gap tempers the wind to the shorm Tmimmbs” and Eo iss 


me the drewlof tle Destrover as we orally spite 


ite Ao ae Rese 213 


his dark domain, We do not drop at once into sleep, 
that teal relative of death, but as slumber creeps eradu- 
wy upon us, aud one by oue the senses yield) to its sway, 
so Death, the antagonist of waketul lite, who walks his 
unceasing rounds, and sooner or later stops at every man’s 
door, lulls us by slow degrees into that sleep which can 
vow no waking, till earth and sea‘ leave at the trump of 


‘9 
Can 


Dip vou ever know an Trish servant that had n't a 


dozen * cousins 2? 


A. friend of ours savs that he once for- 
bade them |iis kitchen: but it was of no use. They 
came, and when he came, they were concealed. THis 
kitchen-chimney smoked one day, he knew not wherefore. 
Ile knows now. Ile savs a kitchen-chimney wild smoke 
When there is a journeyman-baker up the flue! This 


seems reasonable, 


Driase the ararcof- 1812 11. ehaweed that-an invasion 
was expected tn the town of Lyme, situated at the month 
b the Commeetiont river ‘The ‘spiritcof the times? had 
peovotsly maniested itself in miutia-gatherings and. or- 
evulwations + and the individual who lad wnidertaken to 
disvipline the rusties in the art of wiar was one Captain 
Tisker, who had advanced iis company to a Inah stare of 


‘theoretical practie-? through the aid of broorm-sticks and 


214 & Carteron Tanne ny 
corm-stalks, interspersed here and there with a rusty old 
‘Qneen’s-arm. Well. several feroetous and determined 
purades 7 were executed, In anticipation of the enemy's 
advent. Balls were east, guns scoured, tints picked, and 
the * troops’ were set to work in digeying a trench which 
should eomimand the entrance of the river, under the su- 
pervision of Colonel S—-, who was a veteran of the 
revolution, Tt was not long before some gun-bouts were 
secon approaching, closely followed by two Ierierlish frig ; 
and as they came within range, a shot or two was fired, 


1 | 1 
if 


The ‘treops’ were all duly entrencheds and thera 


throneh their embankment. the muzzles of two culverins, 
rita charced with denth-de ing nuiteriel, stood + Sree 


J 
i 


ey Cehanece LO Toren MWiVasion, and AWA Ie Ghaos, 


at at this puncture our doughty captain was not to te 
fonnd. The valiant colonel had ridden up amd down the 


lines in vain in search of Tnm: but at leneth due espiecd in 


2 


the distance a dirt-covered head bobbing wp and down oe 


enstonmily trom. the epotte, Whose “CONT lans © wee 


evident) y hy Bhi ohenged in finding the bottom of a deup 
few. To the sumimertide of passion, the colonel rode wp 
’ tae Sy Lane exe in ' i: W hai the chy vil ya? ts eli: 
o ta that hh le. 4 mod Wiey are yi git a 
head. your f Dro9 | ih TY ili 

the captain; ‘it’s their business te taka cares tem 


selves: thasis mi hole: Leluc ait last Wh Mit ‘ and the missed] 


mi feu me os ape knit oe main ae 


months ago a person was committed to jail in 


Bisa ine had ‘turned in? for the nit his 


hui ordered i up, and told him to dress pes 


supposed | to be a sufliciently long praver, he 
fis inquisitor told him to keep on, and he ae- 


mie ats See in his Mente cst From 


ay i ayrsacie at and ate ina bien ae 


a ‘there em way but to et and afier, Fads 


Chin praying all night, ‘The poor man was 


216 SRE ep i ee eee 


member a good old wordy clereviman, of ort boviood’s 
days! whe would have beaten the vietim in an caroddatery 
offering of the kind. Tis Aearors were the victims, low- 
ever, In hes case? and when he came to pray for the bring- 
ing in of Gop’s fancient covenant people, the Jews, which 
was Ins last division, his audience always felt as rejoiced as 
did the aforesaid prisoner when the jailor came to deliver 


hin from lis unwilling service. ‘Wo unto them that 


make long prayers !’—and, as a general thing, Swo és 


unte them’ who hear therm! 


Ble M dete tee Lb, Des 


TE Ae Sod Sas =e, Pea SE OGTR eS SOE =A SiS 1s Tate Sas de: 


Tee AES, Che ATE? Thee Ae Pa, Ne OF SE SF eS ROP RT ORE 
whos HeNas SS MENG? “Vouk SEREES —=WIEARING *SOMEPHINE | Re: 


’ 


re Hs Oe OVATE “Vonl's TSS) SEPT CPO Geet, EV ce hae we Dit 


Cho hoa SLY MC CONSTR ENE 7 AS “SURDER. 2. OE TERS “Asie 
Tis AGES) STINGER, Te TR. TSB NNO TRISH Sintiay byss> 
ANMIRIST GUENDHE! THE “MORALITY * OE WECENT DRISS4 ARTISTIC <Ssae 
GUN H, 
ID vou ever in vour life see such a change im the 
feclings of any man, as is recorded below, in a couple 
of extracts from a letter of our correspondent ‘JcLray 2? 
[Te is not well, is approaching *New-Years, and 1s alto- 
gether very sad indeed 
‘Tt would be amusing, if one could laugh at any thing 
so sad, to observe the Inimors of the few who think upon 
the bearings of this solemn time. In the venr to be, there 
arg ipany to come, many to go, and but few to tarry > vet 
all have their ambitions of a life-time; those even, to 
whom the stars have grown dim, and life become almost 
samockery under Teaven, dashing into the coming day 
with something of the old) zest: while the many, the o¢ 
pollor, who have not vet made their grand move, are now 


1 


wo 
‘9 6) 


Pitter Parr oon sie 


ready, and think that theretore the earth is to take a new 
route in creation: forgetting that the old) round must be 
the round for ever, Nights sleepless with joy, nights sleep- 
less with pain, nights long with watching, feverish thoueht: 
erime that stings like anvadder, and mights short with per. 
fect rest: days long and weary, days bnght and dashine, 
hot and cold, wet and dry, and days and melts wath all 
of these —as hath been in the time that ‘s past, and will 
be in the thine to come. 

‘There is something very pitiable in these Tumors in- 
decd very Inughable. if your mouth is shaped te thar et 
fect; but as it happens with me to-night, my ieuth re 
fuses to twitch except in one direction. [ts corners linve 
the ‘downward tendencies” Perhaps it is becuse this is 
with me the anniversary of a day upon the events of 


which are hanging the movements of all after-Hte: it may 


i 


be this. snd there May he thereto added the colores mk, a 


winter's dav. The wind jiowls about the louse-tops, au] 


the air pierces like needles: even the stars, when they ok 
down in thousands, as the rack goes by, seem to shiver in 
ther high places: yet perhaps there is nothing se perenal 


1 


in all that. considering that just so the wind lvewhel dest 


nicht, wed may for a amonth to come; buteel? ay] amon 


oe “Gok = 
nervous man. and look back wunen the etreline months, and 


fic] thie sting here and the stal there, in thint enlyanie [wef 


terv: and as T look forward with eager eve, and ear open 


Gor Freer Bap yr 219 


to the faintest whisper of the dim to-morrow, it 1s not as 
the stars shiver from excess of Tight, but with a shudder 
at the heart from the cooler blood of —— Good night, 
my kind Eptrorn: that sentence is quite too long already, 
and there are some thines too persona! to tell. 

‘Pp. S.— Whoop! hurrah! Light is upon the world 


. Pp 1 
Agu. 


Where are you, my dear friend? T say, Sir, T was 
an ass—do vou hear? —an ass, premature, wise before 
my time, a brute, a blockhead! Did [talk of dust and 
ashes?) Oh? Sir, I lied multitudinously. Every nerve, 
every muscle that did w’t try to strangle me in that utter- 
anes, ded. Noy Sir; let ine tell you’ its a creat averld; 
glorious — macuificent 5 a world that can’t be beat! Talk 
of the stars and a better world, but do n't invite me there 
yet. Make “my regrets, inv apology to Dari, but say 
that J curt come: ‘positive engagement; lappy some 
other time, but not now? Oh, nos this morning is quite 
too Tenutiful to leave: and beside, T would rather stay, if 
ouly to thank Gop alittle longer for this glorious light, 


this pure car thatcan echo back my loudest hurrah. And 


then. ny boy Bat have n't TU teld you? Wliv. Sir, 
Tye eet a boy !—-@ bey!—ha hat Tshout i ont to 
yvint-= & Boyica ten-ponider, and the mother a orent 
dei! ake r tlian eottlel be Gaeiisietorl Manele | seb¥ 5 my old 


friend, it’s awe! Turrah and hallelujah forever? Oh, 


Sixt sich leos, and such arms, aod Suck a hee hae 
jue has his mother’s lips! Lean |ass them forever! Ad 
then, Sir, look at lis feet, his lands, his chin, his eves, is 
every thing, in fact——so. perfect! Give me Jey, Sir pone 
you need mt ether. Tam till now: T run over: amd 


they say that T ran over a maumnber of old women, halt 


— 
r 
Sec 


eimother, pulled the doctor Ty the nose, and ap 
set a “pothecary shop in the corner; and then dil at I 
rine the tea-bell? Did n't I blow the horn? Did a1 


dance, shout. Jangh, and ery altowether? The women say 


they had to tie me up. I do nt believe 7Aw? 2 bee whi ts 
ondne » shut his riomtl when ] has b alye bay? \ { 
shonld bave heard his Tuages, Sa fhe first manmhal og 


ye eH excess of Tov. Sir, TI L $OO @YeNt seTsSatn; ir 
) } 7 ? 
tu} Tone} Whe Sy Sit { \ ley y hime « atl lanes” ; 
Hii machinery shart « fonee im Phu mM Sn Hus 
} ) 
sand oniside feclers answer to the tearch of Shc toned 
* , ‘ ’ ‘ * AK 
guys the fFlutier and “rash. 4 TIS GS oe Re Se ae 
‘ ' } kes . { - iy } 4 
COULIIVARTS The eye, 1ookine oOnf wonder @ oral eel. 
} | i } 
‘ i t ! J | wort » apps Peer et ppsniey ; 
\ CHT Retr v\* ris | Pelt vir. 4 ; per ree | = eae “, 
7 ’ 1 . 
Bn ey tabs rey 1 Mares, is Eig Be NE 
i CE We i}? | 4 eres WW 
} | > 
rHeT PUT , ' ai nc : " oe a 
1 y } + 
t wihiok Hoth med ty ith, withent siher eo 


(~ 
— 


Oita, We iuressis, Src. oe 


pause — making altowether, Sir, exactly ten pounds aveir- 
dupois! 

‘Pid Dever talk brown to you, Sir, or blue, or any 
other of the devil's colors? You say Thave, Dee your 


Ci 


pardon, Sir, but you——are mistaken iu the individual. 1 
ain this day. Sir, multiplied by two, Tam. dupheate. 1 
am omumber one of an indefinite series, and there ‘s iv 
contimtttion, And you observe, it is not a bleck, nora 
Dlock-head, wor a painting, nor a bust, nor a fragment of 
auy thing. however beautiiul; but a combination of «// 
the arts and seiences In one; painting, sculpture, muse, 
(hea him ery.) mineralogy, chemistry, mechanics, (see lium 
kick.) geography, and the use of the globes, (see him 
nurse?) and withal, he is a perpetual motion —a time- 
piece that will never ran down! Amd who wound it up? 
Bat words, Sin are but a mouthing amd a mockery. 
"When amin is nearly crushed wider obligations, it is 
prestimed that he is tunable to speak; but he may bend 
over very curclully, for fear of falling, nod in a smell way, 
reid th Wotlyes t and then, if he Trave suilicient presence 
of nated te day add upon his heartpaud look down atau 
nce of forty-live degrees, with a motion of the Tips am 
tiered poetry —-showing the wish and the inability i wi 
Teo Owl dewe) very omeecfally exprossive, With amy tos 
im tis dist intequiments, | assume that positon, ike the 


small nod aforesaid. and leave you the poetry unuttered,” 


COG HER STERR AEE: 


Te will tike vou but a minute to read this lithe sketch 


of what we heard and saw at the jail im Rochester, that 
wondertul tew-old city, recently : 


As we walked leisurely by a orated door, aw fished 


countemines and unquiet eve flashed suddenly pon us 


through the iron bars. It was a face to be remem dered, 


for it had ‘a smack of Tartarus and the souls in bale? |: 
was of adaan in confinement for shooting his wift. ia ell 


blood. She was still lingerisg upon the borders of 41] 


[roe 
te 


ayive, and, woman-like, refused to crimimate. by Ter dest 
mony, lier brutal husband. . .. As we were enka 
’ e- baat z" : | 

tae PMison, a representative from those 


COTS Aes TT BS 


ereancey in which erime is concocted 


manity which ferment and reek like compost, i 


it 
cities, was pointed out leisurely engaged pa carryhes ont 
the plan of Mr. M’\AnAM, with a Jong-hand 
ry is we 
He was a bit Of a wae, we were inform A 
} 
stood him in good stead. He lad been repeated 
as ‘ oe. Rip wad T. Ha: ine an ean 
sore the ¢itv authornties for divers wiusdenpeamors: Gav 
. . ) 1 » . re) 
ede fame promised weil for the future but alee 
he alwags kept his mon nance, be nerer aot te 
Bivieoin asin, Lies ea } { ! t te ; cere 
it Wo ie t Mi \ iyt | 
ahh as 
i Lerten Sraty FPO ! ek 
} 
Oriel LOO. Wien. ies L tre rt 
_ 4 


One Che err rai 2 iin aie UF one 228 


his tattered cout a loaf of bread, and half of a dried codtish, 
and holding them up to the magistrate, with triumphant 
look and gesture, exclaimed: * You do n't ketch me thus 
way! T’m no wagrant. Ant them ‘wisible means o’ 
support,” J should like to know?’ The argument was a 


HO Seguilur. 


Tre opinion has always extensively prevailed in the 
United States, and doubtiess even now generally obtains, 
fostered as it is by many of our own writers, that the only 
feeling which an elderly Englishman, who happened to be 
Sout? in America, during our national contess, entertains 
toward this country and her people, is one of decided 
hatred and repuenanee. We ean call to mind, at tis 
moment, sone half dozen native fictions, and one or two 
indivenous works of a different charaeter, in whieh this 
position is set forth as a promiment fact. Now, as a gen- 
epak ivvth, we believe the reverse to be the ease: and we 
are sustaimed in this opinion by these wlio have had dis 
Snenisied opportunities of judeiag of its correctness, An 
isGuice was recently relited to us, by anu illustrious 
N 


American, known as well, and as highly honored, abroad 


as at home, which, without any infraction of social conf 


denes, we sliall here take the liberty to repeat, for toe 
Lenefit of our readers, 


Olt Adinival Sir + - TTanvey told me, at dainer, of 


wo 
we 
rs 


A OO aor iets aor TP oe? 


his serving on the Aiertean station, when tie wes a mii: 
shipinwn in 1776. He was cast away in tet Liverpeol, 
in the month of PFebriary, on Rockaway bevel Te 
boats were swamped in getting the crew to shore. The 
people of the neighborhood came down to the bereh in 
wiens, took them up to ther homes, changed aed dried 
their clothes, and gave them supper, | They renitined 
quartered in this neighborhood for weeks, part of the tine 
in tents, part of the time in the farm-houses, Nother could 
exceed the kindness of the people, partiewarly of the Qn 
ker Farnly of the Plrens’s + and another Fruuiiiv, whee Teeny 

ed them always hospitabiy in their houses, They unde 
oreat havoc among the bacon and beans, end) pees) then 
time pleasantly among the Quaker gins: who always 
however, demeaned themselves with strict propriety : te 
old Quakers tolerating their vouthtal trelies, When thes 


ame to pay off scores, they expected to have * a thunder 


ince Pall? “The good people world take nothing buat tre 


eet ee gong a gg $aption 
kine’s allowanee, Yeu are people in distress! sal tli 
} 
os | Soa ee 2 ae = ity 
we will not take any thine ont of your poekets, hn 
. = . 1 
7 ) “ + 3 } } ‘ ) ‘ 5 
old Admiral declares be las never for@ot «: their haeiiess, 


\ estan iriond, in one of gut sonthanair tee 
which.* well we kaow, as Mrs. Gane ators: tes thee 


ing >) A mayp-pedhen, daq7irstance of his fossh wee 


bon 
a 
eee 


NEG OHO Ot BNE 


td stop at the principal hotel in one of the pleasancest of 
our Westen. state Villwges, A trend. whont he lel known 
iu former vears in’ Yankee lund, seeing im at che hotel, 
invited Lim to a large prurty which he was to give the 
same evening. The old friend euame sy and when reecived 
hy his host at the door, was found with three maps i his 
hand: ¢ Wow-de-du?? said hey ‘got any mails ¢ Thought 
as praps there was to be a good many fokes here to night, 
[cd hang wp some ot my aeaps here, and let “em look at 
‘om, Grood chance —fust rate. May be some on “em 
would like to buy em: and [could explain ‘em as well as 
net; nothin’ else to do, pooty mmeh. Got a small ham- 
mer? Kuow where [Id be liable todispose of a few 


bemis?? Sharp practice, that, eli? 


Yrere tsoa vast deal of a certain kind of are 


melity 
about negro composition, Take this example of an ilus- 
tition dately used by a colored exherter at an evening 


conterchisneetine dn Mouéivomerve Aiabarnva : 


oMy Dreurens Gry hless-xeour sonls)higton, 1s ike de Niwtaima viber, ~ Ts 


t tome Ge fresh. ant he brine in all de ole jog 


Seo slbe ane SS ate Sieh 


f ie ei ee bane ah carrie detidown iidewtrmant, Birgela ae waned 
as ; pintcae re cri aires eaten Te ea Br ot eanve edt < 


Tithe Shs on, We ished atid Wie ake Teac aad wl ath aos 


Sater tests ist sé dere eomie vind of Mactan ais ale: siticas Pett di, ak 


obaekes Tor Terps Taek > in ail le Sk Seer Gequata ay antchew eaad tans 


i etter riley bess. vietie Seine irelig Wives) “s Sones dem adisnine Pe 


atl 


a ae PSS Ot peek: Y- oars! [Poe secs 


is stuck on his ole sins den dat ole back-siider is cotched where he was atore, 
on jus such arock: den one arter nedder, dat had got “Huden, Tes ali Tone de 


shore, and dere dey lie till “nodder “vival. Beloved bredren, Gop bless your 


souls, get deep in de enrrent {7 

HTow ‘many a white pulpit-bore lias waded through 
the logical * divisions” of a discourse, (a well-intended one, 
no doubt, Dnt from its unconscionable Jeneth spoiling 
some hearers Sunday turkey that was worth two of it.) 
Which had not in its whole compass so forcible an illustra 


tion as this? 


‘Remeubrances of Boyhood” shall appears we de 
‘think the article worthy! Speaking of boyhood, we 
may as well add, that we have recently had quite a prite- 
tical dlustration of the pleasure to be derived from: certatu 
of its renumiscences, During a recent visit to ant esteemed 
friend in the country, whose hospitable intdisien rises 
anvdst its parted autumnal trees, within sound of the 
cataract of Cohoes, we joined a pleasant party te visit, 
over the Pudson. the lofty sumainit of + Woven! Dither spit, 
(aimed atter an old contributor to this Maeizine.) from 
Which a inienifieent and imost varied view aniy be com 
muuided. As we adehted trom our barouche. at the foot of 
the last wreat aeclivity, and bewan to aseend through the 
forest that skirts its hase, so it was that the fresh mont 


tain ain did ereathy dilate the heart and expand th 


Che * eal 


i 2 = ae ao 3 ? % , ‘ 
a “Opp Kyick.. who let tos “henorable lie 


Peis: IS Onnea UN GD Row, ey 


guests and the charming ladies of his household behind 
him, while Zacuecs-lke, he ran on in advance, and 
climbed some forty or fifty feet to the top of a sinall 
*staddle, having it in mind to perforin a common feat of 
his boyhood ; namely, to ‘sway’ the same by grasping its 
top and dropping slowly to the ground with the yielding 
trunk, New look vou what betel: * Do ime the favor to 
observe exclaimed *Oup Jtsick., as he threw himself 
free from the body of the sapling. Down he went. with 
a sensation as of sinking slowly im a balloon, when pre- 
seutly, while vet about fifteen feet from the ground, he 
suddenly ‘heard something drop!* The individual who 
emerged from ander the bruised branches of that prostrate 
ash, (so unlike the lithe saplings familiar to his bovhood.) 
was rubbing several of lis own limbs, for some cause or 
other: and we can answer for him, that when he saw the 
*honorable member’ smothering a ttter, and his fair 
household suppressing a large amount of vivele; when 
he heard them say that they were ‘sorry that the tree 
lil broken so soon; very sorry; did n't know the time, 
in fuct, for several vears, when they had been qyte so 
surry y when ‘Orb Kyicx.’ saw and heard this, he was 
discornforted within himself, and his countenance fell: for 
then he knew that they were laughing at him. There 
was a lame male ‘human’ about the house that might, 


doing something with laudanum and soins yet he 


Reo. od (te (Sa Te ore 2 es eae 


did) not dorset. amidst his thoughts of *tte tal to ciet 
mountain Jed, the matchless view of city. vilbere meta 
tain, ‘tield and flood?” which was cGonimanded frome its 


lofty suminit, on that glorious October atterioowt, 


Jousx Surri-— we inention this ventlenian’s eoenomer 
itl : eet a o, ack aint i oe aqye re! 4 re 
With some retuctance, for the reason that there ape fag 
persons of the same qame in Grothetia— lors Sarin wis 
returning to town on one occasion abot midmieht, in a 
dark ‘Snowstorm He was “full af new owing wand see 

ee ee eS Oa | es Pere oe er oa 
quate Watbiae, ater Tiaine (Of 2h BOW fo Won sae 
dwelling: but he drove wp ton house whirl he thorns 
1 


must be at least in is neighborhood, and aliiest wretched 


the bell-pull otf with tus hurried and renedted riawines 


At length a neighbor's head peered from an Weper wile 
dow: ‘ What do you want, down there?” said mot the 
best-natured “vores mothe world +> ‘what thew) aie 
A mt ?—yineine the bell as rf the lease was aires 
What da ans want?? *Can vou tell me wines Teaes 
Swrrre lives 2? . * J-o-ner  S-ar-toraa 7 6 anew aie ee 
nized nethbor, with a kind of exclamatory interred 
‘why, you ave Jons Suirn, yourself!’ “1 kaow % 

wall youcdo, Iiesuppead Jomx, ‘but 1 do n't depen 


} bye | Swat fa ler rw ‘ / Lint a CAL 


show'd itm. 


ASS Perv Bes a ESS ie, 229 


We slipped up to > Dong Ins Ferry? the other day. 
It looked bleak there —all but the noble river and. the 
erand old Juils. There were no friends on the piazza 
fronting the sanetum. and no little peopre rimming down 
the hill to meet *Oip Kyren. lalf way, and pour into the 
porches of lis ears much voluble discourse. on Tis farther 
Malt aig = Down on the shore, however, was one of 
> Yonny Wsrex.’s’ little shoes, and idly walking there, we 
picked up the tube of an oll rocket. There was pleasure 
in thinking when that little old shoe was Jost, and that 
signal rocket fired. Winter has PORES the time of the 
singing of birds hath come: the trees are reddening with 


their wewly-awakened Hft-blood 3 and soon * Douns* will 


put ierth all its stummer glories. 


‘fsnotia hike vow to lave seen, said a trend to us 
the oper dav. “a specimen of w green Yankee who came 
down the Sound ina UTartford stesaner with me. [Te had 
never been *to York? before, and le was asking questions 
af every bedy on board the boat. However if lie aes 
saree use grass he wees iekima pea wed han et aH 
formation, witneanwill danlithes stank Tita ta wma steal 
hevedien One of dds comparisons struck: tie as decide Tis 


original: * Up te Nortlranpton! said te. +P taok break- 


250: Sie bk CORRS BE Pras Por eis 


fast, and they taxed me tew shillim’s! “Twas a) pooty 
good price, but L7gin it to em. “Twas cnomgh. any way. 
Well, when [ come down to Har'tord, TP took breaktist 
agin, next mornin’, and when [asked ‘em * How much?’ 
they looked at me and said, * Half a dollar !!? DT lookea 
back at ‘em pooty sharp—bnt TP pend it: and arter Vd 


pau it, T sot down, and ciphered up inside how much i 


would cost a fellow to beard long at that rate: and 1 tel 
you what, | pooty soon found edut that ‘fore the end of a 
month it would make a tellow’s pocket-book load as ac 
Clephunt head stomped onto it /? *Sa00 Satie er ih 


never employed a more striking simile. 


“ing following specimen of judicial * wisdom” was re: 
cently delivered to a * Wolverine’ jury :—* Murder. gen- 
tlemen! sid our western Sonox, *is where a ian ts 
murderously killed. “The killer, in such a ease. is a mur: 
derer, Now ruurder by poison is as much mimrder aes 
murder with a gum Ttis the aevrdercg that constitutes 
minder, in the eve of the law. You will bear in mind 
that murder is one thine. amd manshmehter another: 
therefore if it is net manslaughter it must be murder: 
mdat ithe not murder, it must be manslaughter. Selb 
taurder has nothing to do in this case: one man cannot 


conmit fedo de se on another: that is clearly my view. 


eek is. De pabi igs PA RSs Se 


oo 
ie 


Gentlemen, L think vou can have no dittculty. Murder, 
Tsay. is murder, The murder of a brother is called fra- 
thicide s but it is not fratricide if a man murders his 
nother. You will make wp your minds. You know 
what murder is, and [ need not tell you what it is not. 
I repeat, murder is murder, You can retire upon it, if 


vou like!’ 


We do not remember ever to have seen a more ap- 
pealing look than one which was given us the other day 
by a Green Turtle at the door of a popular restaurant in 
Broadway. TLow he had ettected so much, passes our 
comprehension ; but he had actually backed up avaiust 
the wall to an angle of about forty-five degrees; aud his 
hewl was out, and bent round, apparently to see how the 
land lay. Ile regarded us with evident emotion; and the 
look of his eve, the gurgling in his throat, and a heavy 
sth, which must have come from the very bottom of Iiis 
shell, suid as phunty as ever a Green Turtle spoke in the 
world 2 * Friend, reverse me, for Pitw’s sake! Give mea 
chance for iy lifel Twill do you as good u turn, it I 
ever find you on your back, with a label on your breast, 
setting forth that vou are going to ‘get into a stew’ the 
wext day? For one moment we thought of ‘liberty! and 
ierdly Swished he might eet ity and he would have 


. 


colaied it, too, 1f he had the same chance that a fellow- 


839 TREES Bh TU CRA er eae 


Testnude dad. with Jas Enelish CApbonsy aie desing: ty 
Hoox. It scems they were conveying a turtle ina too 
on the river Tay, when somebody sugeested the eave 
nience of a osea-bath, and the refreshment the creature 
mieht derive from a taste of its mative clement  Neccord: 
ingly ‘Testudo was lifted over the side. and indulecd with 
ndip and a wallop in the wave, which aetunlly revived it 
so powertully, that from a plavtul dlappine with its fore 
fins it soon began to strugele most vigorously, like a ent 
refreshed with brine. In fact, it paddled with a power 
which, added to its wereht, Jeff no alternative to is 


euardian but to vo with itor without it. The @eent saan 


Cole ofy, The Wish wibled backward i} tae Dit Poetts aie 
the turte plunged forward inte the deep. There was a 
splash ya momentary elimpse of the browdl baek-steil: 


the waters closed. aml all was over — or-rather wider 

‘Ts he alive 77 inquired « Gitde boy im our hearin the 
other dav, as he @azed at a large turtie crawitny i froyt af 
another restaurant, with a bill of his oww tare on lis Daa. 
‘Alive! exclaimed 2 fai man wha tras Sing teak ipa ae 


Lie SYGL-MOnsieY WILL AM @XDIessiOn Of Tnbenes Wiese 
4 


‘sartinviz, boy! He acts hke alive turkle, ay Wp ine 
‘Why ves, be ets like one’ answered the Tittle oweret: 
bot f did wt know bunt he might he geakiw Vheve J 
it pessibie that what a frend, just returned froin New 


a 


Jew aud, tell us can be true? He savs that he las austs 


AGT Dy ixarnGa VV kien On Shines) Eda uSs er SSS 


a time and oft seen a tat and tender white man lying be- 
fore a cannibar eatiny-house, with ‘Sop? in large native 
characters, and the hour at which he was to be served wp. 
inscribed on his breast. A] nan, says our friend, should 
see a sight like this, who would) preperly appreciate the 
frequent deep-drawn sigh which a poor turtle heaves while 
lyin 


on his back, exposed to the ride gaze of hunery 


~ 


passers-by, Chiristian-men too, in good corporeal condi- 
tion, has our traveller seen in Cannibal-land, driven around 
the lanes of the rude villages, their limbs decorated with 
parti-colored ribands, and the hour when they were to be 
killed marked on thei backs! ‘Mine Gorr! vat a 


poet yples ! ; 


Tur following most touching fragment of a Letter 
trom a Dying Wife to her ILushand was found by him, 
some months after her death, between the leaves of a re- 
ligious volume, which she was very tond of perusing. The 
letter, which was literally dim with tear-marks, wits writ- 
ten lone before the husband was aware that the grasp of 
a fital disease had thetened upon the dovely form of his 


wite, who died at the early ave of nineteen t 


Wiresttis Shall reendy vor are, Dente = Swine (hie wehel. wore Te 
ie Ore tthe me OF Vie pest Pehl love qasstd aan tanec sand 4 
wile Sage wil, die keep Ts Jones wath aver The ops Aol Hadie Sot 


preséod, and the sod will be grows greon that sad hile forever from year 


Poa Ny OW rise? Wee Pw oie SRR ee 


sight the dust af one who has se often nestled close to your warm heart, Vor 
taany Jong and sleepless nights, when all beside my thoughts was at rest 1 
have wrestled with the consciousness of approaching death, until aa ast it his 
foreed itself upon my mind; andalthough to vou and to others it might new 
seo lint the neteais imagiiiogs ofagarl, yet) dearGr a= 76 es Ss; Mam 
weary hours have T passed in the eideavor to reconcile myself to leaving vou, 
whom IT loye so well, and this bright world of sunshine and beauty > and hard 
indeed it is to strugele on silently and alone with the sure eonciction that I 


am about to leave all for ever, and go down alone into the dark valley? *Butl 


know in whom [have believed? and leaning upon Tis arm ‘Tf tear noe Do 
not blame me for keeping even all thisfrom you. Tfow could L subject ve, of 
all others, to such sarrow as I feel at parting, when time will so soon make it 
apparent to vou? Leould have wished to live. if only to be at vonr side wien 
your time shall come, and pilowing vour head upon my breast, wipe the 
death-damps from vour brow, and usher your departing spirit inte is Mynnn’s 
presence, embalmed in womat’s holiest prayer, Daa it is not sate bo and 7 


submit, Yours is the the priviice: of watching, through Jong al aime 


nigits, for the spirit’s final Weht, and oof transfering my stikine Ives tron 
your breast to my Saviore’s bosom) And you shail share mw ast Wietatt | 


even When flesh and lveart shall have failed me, my eve Stall rest on sanirs 
tf claved by death: and our spirits shall hold one last fond eomimiynion, 
nil gently fading from muy view =-the last of curth Soa Shach aim ve teh 
the first heteht etimpses Of the untaling & gk at Leto Sen i Sr ak 
Parhings ara dy = —, Where seit tad 
laa tes OPke werahenbiesd igen ye Aa 
a ee TE leaves. aad Tertiisived 4 
grassy tnownds around os with stripes of Imrnished woul eck periaps his 
thonwght that seme dav one of 


be, oer treme well fue th 

el £8 semice Put hon athe Vide i vt gent. 
‘) Ove It otes thy RY Ay fhe Sate 4ypaiet ! S ! 
svt rium 4 ss tl ma OS ne Miters Sher hy (oRaaige® 8 
i 
fo ote Aone Miers, Wie Tat dolcd there, sel ary. Syrirg! SND ee east! 
1 1.4 ; Z . Tat ae t 
then, and whisper amome the waving branches, *J dup eet Jost 


[ER Thy Sea Ne Dwr SeSs 235 


Ceniovs and odd things not unfrequently oeeur * be- 
fore the Mayor’ The other day, in attending to ap- 
plications for situations in the police-toree, the Mavor, it 
Was supposed, was about to Invest Parnick Meureuy with 
a‘tstar? when some of lis Insh competitors outside the 
railing ered out: * Are ve goin’ to ‘pint Par, ver Honor? 
THe cant write lis name, yer Honor.” ~I am only reeeiv- 
Ing applications to-day > ina fortuigat we make appoint- 
ments, said the Mayor: and Pat was told to eall on that 
day two weeks. The triend through whose influence Par 
Nad been induced to apply for offive said to him, as they 


eo drone, and 


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vane act teoin™ the Etally * Now; Pat, 


every night do vou get a big piece of paper and a good 


start wean inl keep writine veur name. IDM “set -the 
J A 

copy? for vou Par drt as directed; and every wight for 

lit was seen running out lis ton 


Ho dope: 


rsig 


he, 


ne and swaying 
Los Clue sewer “Se vreree Abeaei SP awadcen Mii 
mi the sivle of chirogranhy cenerally known a@s * course 
hand’ When the day for the appointment cune, Dar 
found Limescif* before the Mayor? urging his claim, *Can 
yon write” sail that excellent functionary. *Troth, aa 
feos omnes ite jist hin! ? answered Laie os gs of ae 
i Maat? and leb-ise aie weit writes, Wie 
your dane,’ 


Tfe took the pen as directed when a sort of eyclama- 


236 Acwa Tipdstic) Bap ses aie 


tory Jaueh burst from his surprised competitors vho were 
in attendance: * How-ly Pau. ?—d' ye mind fhat, Mine? 
Pars a-writi’ ?—he’s gota quillin btw list “sete 
has, be Jabers!? said Mikicy ‘but small good “1 willde 
him: he ean’t write wid it,man?? But Par ded write: 
he had recorded his name ina bold round and. ‘Theat i 
do said the Mavor, His foiled nvals looked in eneli 
others fnees with undiseutsed  astonishiment. \ ineks 
theuchi struck them: Ask lian to write saree body cisex 
vane, Ver Tlonor,’ said two of thera, iia Treath, > Plead 
well thought of? replied the Mayor: * Par waite ae 
nume!? Tere was a-dilemmay; but Par was oqial te in 
* Ve write ver Tfonor’s name!” exeluraed lie, with a yall 
cissembler] “holy horror % MI Conniiit ut fe refi val, sie | All 
woin on the Pelisse tL eait do ity ver Tenor?) Nie te 
could n't == baat liis wit Saved) dian. andl de is new > ee Sty 


tf the first maenitude? 


Dy-the-by, ‘spenking of Trishmen’ Cr vssres, the pope 


wlar host of the * Reckawav Pavilion’ Hhishrates ia x 


1 
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characteristic ancedote their inherent propensity te Dime 
ae 
der, An bish servant of lus had been directed to awideen 
Bo ah hie at art ae eta 
VG Ven WweTDel WL SX. Oo Cock Ti Ae DIOR TNE, Who Were de 
tke the public conveyance to town. At Lease vicarage oman 
ge OS) eg eas ee, i ie | chegeie tadtils iets 
Hie Denies 1° AWARE TW eer SSO eT eit 


sound sleep, who after anathematizing dis stuprdicn > 


tween sleep tuned awake. for sore diour and a ledteae lena 


iw 


SON Ory Alem OES Dr Ik ae ES 


fell into the refreshing slumber which had been so rudely 
dispelled when there came another rap at their doors, 
which awoke them instanter. The blundering Trishiman, 


= 


having discovered his mistake, had * come to apologize to 
the gintlemen for wakin’ em up at the wreng hour?’ 
Faix,’ said lie, in the most selfaeensing spirit, ‘it was n't 
con that was to be waked, anny way? ‘With -cwtses 
not loud, hut of considerable depth, the restless QUES 
resioned themselves to their fate—victims of an [nish 


servant. 


Aw eminent legal judge, and a preéminent judge of 
human niatire, observes: * It is an observation [have al- 
wars nade, that dress has a moral effeet on mankind. Let 
any veutlemun find himself with dirty boots, old surtout, 
sotled neck-cloth, and a general negligence of dress, he 
will inal probability find a eorrespouding disposition to 
nezhvence of ad-dress, We may, en dexhebille, curse and 
swear, speak roughly and think coarsely; but put the 
same man into full dress, and he will feel himself qui 
another person, To use the language of the blackenar! 
would then he out of character: he wall tall smoothly, 
atliect politerress, if he has it nou: pique Timeself upon good 
manners, el respect the women: nor will the spell sub- 


side, until returning leome, the old surtout, the heedless 


258 MRTTSUPS OB WEE eee 


slippers, with other slovenly appendages, mitke Lim lose 


again his brief consciousness of being a gentleman,’ 


‘Running a Land Blockade’ veminds us of a trick plaved 
by a wag who, before the working of the saline springs 
of our own elorious State, made it a business to smile 
sult from Canada into * the States” One dav, liaving got 
wind that he was suspected, he loaded dis bags full of saw- 
dust, and drove past the tavern where the excisemen were 
waiting tor him. TTe was ordered to stop, Dat lie only in- 
erensed his speed. At length ie was overinken, amd his 
Joad inspected: with mawiy Haprecitions, atter whieh he was 
permitted to pass on. A day or two after he drove up 
acon with a dull load of salt. and asked hanterinely if they 
did n't want to search him again. *(to on) eo on)? said 


the excisemen ; ‘we ’ve had cnoueh of vou !" 


Seo aD ek ET Ee By, 


CRINGING TO? TIM INSOLCBLE (PRABLEMS S PERRMONTTIANS. oh" ok) CONSE APS 


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MV: SG ASHINE GS TE GRAVES DRATIC OF SON. SAGAS THCKGINS |) GacLis 
FORNLA PILGRIMS S A °LATD-CP* RAR? SUGGESTIVE RPITAPITD THE SINNIR 
HIF wr IANS) a SENOS ITLGH SGOT Ik VRTIRE Figs. THE AGSRRS DA: 
CONDENSING CONVEESATIONISI: DOW. AMONG. THE TOMBS: A. CLIPY SNOW- 
SONA.) LMAGE “ENDERSTANDING * 2” WISTER IN: DHE) COUN TIEN (BOM 


THOU GILES (ON. ICEPES. 


as. NORTON, in * The Child of arth, has beauti- 


fully illustrated the tenacity with which poor Iu- 


manity clings to this shadowy existence : 


Farrer her slow step falls from day to day: 
Death’s hand is heavy on her darkening brow! 
Wet doth she funds cline tevaartth, atl sare 


“Tan content to die-= bit ohy not now! 


Not white the blossouas of the joyous Spring 
Make ti watinn sieh luxury te bre 3 
Not while the birds suel of slathiess sing, 


Not whtle bright fowers around ma footsteps wreathe, 
Spare me creat Gop! — lift wp my drooping brow: 


Lam content te die — but oh. not now !? 


NW ripened tuto stmmier-time — 


The serson’s view]ess boundary is VERS hi 
The glovions sun hath reached his burning prinie » 


‘Oh?! must this climpse of beanty be the last ¥ 


ad () Cie lS THe ee 


tsteps the Lorn ot ieht meves oy; 


Not white the murmur of the miowuntain-lee 
Greets ney dnloear with minsie in its ten, 
j | 


Pale Sickness dims my eve and clouds my brow — 


Tam content to die! His vhf samt jes? 


The Weak wind wlisties: snow-showe 


rs Yur amd pear 


the whitening 2rcaid 2 


,. RIM COlay mic Cas, 
R, we 7 
Trang 1 ihibada ey sclek 


Vat ath that prver asosnds> * Obl, } 


My brethers rodnd t rey he 

Our hometira | ‘ Lt t, and Del 
And tie root rr ii: votaee Heh? andl Somt: 

Sypuata toe awl raise Tp my droophag hrow | 

Lean content to dic! hut oh l— aor Noa" 


Pervars two or three 


he found « 


of the questions which ensue toy 


uswer. ‘They are worse than Hates 


pe fe eerie 


‘Given (. 4. G. to find @. +” for in iat 


take a plesaani rate fe Jove, 


Pitesti Peo ab ans 241 
near London, which was very casily accomplished, if we 
remeniber rchtty 3 

“Ly Uiree then Work ten dias on a fertile: farin, what is the lovarichm % 


‘Tt three men, Gne of them a colored amen, and the other a female, set ont 


Siniultuieousiy, whieh TW ant there first? 


ase, ffom these premises, thie tine of starting, starting-point, desti- 
Havin wil ie “Saat Niner belongiie te the wien, 

hirnidanery Mites NO, the proba ave ef ile qanties amit 
pel ini eaietaiia teak 

SO Wenn Fise i cempass Witheat a needle, and which way does if point? 


NRC «ES OHA. 


is ibe required leneth af a limited steel wire which rans the other 
ENON, Ao ye oie Nore Other tia? 
In tlie solution ef the problem, ‘uly @ General Thing, 
which wilt do the most Good 7? an ‘allegational formula’ 
Iswiven, Which detes our types. Tle solution, however, it 


(eit Te ii, is clear ae the question sel “Ve 


“Ix a ace Tioteahoail nenher father net mother knew jnv thins, Toay 
Vase wath: the faint 

“Tad inte over Justifinine in iter ease, and iW so, hick ? 

Ae fi a Toga 


huni. Winhie fo fravel, seb out on-a jomnery, at different rimes, i cont 


eran anie Tear tins Tees der fiteh toro ent 
SebT a wrtisine, Ah thie hk WN 
ia rf oe Pra“ Feel a ee eae \ ly ’ tin We Thay¢ 
4 MY ar alk C igs, ker he Et Mico a, eet ke Spar, Aaa Weigel 
a hat 2 Moh ots aa tine Mores. ONG etnbuaeee Bit kocae 
“a5 


Phe eonditions ef this last proklont are extremely 
a 


Me Peewonwrrionws oF + Conxneitaphae es. 


vane: but we cannot help thinking that iam andivds 
een * aiseiplined” by miathemiuical probiams whip 
were -of quite as much practical value as (lis, or Any 
Ce oilvers which We hve quoted, We lew |. ave tie ste 
jomn a few Kindred questions, involving imeriuine law, the 


sclence of heat, scripture history, ie. 3 


1, Surposr a ca 


rih-west for the lores’s tai 


the Wind abeam, with a flaw comirg up in the south: wenld the captiin, ne 


at 1 alt= 
cording to maritime law, be justified in iaking a reef in the siow-pite Wie 
out usking the cook 7° 
8. The chief jroperty of } < expand 
the: G tat : nye i 
fr (HeTue ‘ 
cont ’ 
his ' » of 
See heed £ 3 
1, 4 ‘ ie if 1 a 
vi rol ‘ ] ‘ ' 
N \ ' 
“ d 7 ig 
if “ve la Para? /) 
aa ‘ ! 
an x } ~ ¥ 
nit tos ‘ 
d 


SUMpuen, Or Whatever be Wee Taare ese 


PAGEATON Leto NS or 20 6 Ferien Ve. Hee 


of that most wily and fital foe, who in one hand presents 
the insidious olive-lbranch, and in the other conceals his in- 
evituble sword, cutting down Youth in its blossom and 
Matihood iu its fruit * For very many vears, from twelve 
to two have been my hours of retiring, amd my exercise 
has been nething, or newly so, during the day, One re- 
sult has been, that [have read one half of the Greek and 
Roman classies, and feasted largely in. modern literature. 
A yeiralicl result las been, that owing to corporeal slug- 
@ishness and nervonsness, the curse of the sedentary, L have 
no doubt reaped less pleasure and profit than Dmight heave 
done from half that assiduity coupled with a due reoard 
to the wants of the body. The flual result is, that ea dren 
eoustitiition is now largely disoreanized : and from th: 
coustant presence of a dull, deep. stationary paun in iny 
let stde beneath the ribs, and fixed [ fear upon the hines. 
[ beein to mdutee im sad and deep forehodines, Often, 
wine witkened by its pauintil urgency, T le in the silence 
The. Tistiin.. Astana” to. nye heart's | ake beats, © 
aud vet uniilled dreams—dreams oi! 
lea a horiems. sited array before my uisated eyes ahi 
mech: Sila ats. havebs hetenine,: mids sweet poshtey aid 
Drie passband retlect trosy uifit Dont to die. aus 
bs thie comet ives Oy oe Ke EX bere, behave J fete ia 


title) the whines and perused the Hiveterios: of pss biog 


then think of the wormy bed, abd anticipate the hore 


Bab SiS BRINK oF TR pase 


when T shall He there, closing my eves te color and iny 


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ears tosound; the tupationt longing 7] have sometinn> 


1 
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felt for death is repaid by an indetinable drorror: and) he- 


the tenderness of natural reeret amd the slaadder 
ings of unconquerable awe, passion iasters pride, and 


’ 


fo onshine 


both sink to meeknéss and humility in a flood « 


Tin late Professor Catpwett, of Dickinson Colles, a 
short time before his death, said to lis wite: * You wil 
net. Dam sure, lie down upon your bed aml weep, when | 
aim fone, You will mot moun for te, when Geom las 


been so cool tome And when you visit the spot wine 


l be. de not chopse’a sad snd inouroful time? Wn ned “shin 
‘ q ‘ . . ) } en a 
in the shales of evenine, of in the dark micht 74 if 


no times to visit the orave-of one who 
frien Reorewen Lo Come, daar wits) ao tiem 


, len 9 ho — P ee 
Lah brialit sunshine, and when the binds are Se ed 


‘ ; bee Sal oy 
NorurG could more thoroughly inuress as wy] 
: } 


fuct, thatat is pretty pnpossible to commimniecite to others 


Ey ial cat MARLON Mie THN esr Wey | ate 


sisted upon, by the speaker. to the no small wonder of the 


Hlouse, his miter ticompetency being noty 


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niles ss 


> Sel) Oarcfellow eitven, Mr Shas TineeiNe. wie was 


tid. aint le died wester= 


lave miemibor or tits beoieh of the 


Gay i the forenoon, He bad the brown-ereaters. (bronchitis was mennt. yatid 


unecrmuon fidividual THs character was good up to the tine of his 


Meal Gul The jever west hisowoiee: Heowds "Six Year old, anil was, taken 


hid ata dolar 


steko betore te hed at lis: hourding-honse, where board eat 


Se reek. Waele awl lights ineladed, Te was-an iniges 


a father and mother. - The 


s abl was Lrave amb polite: 


Soe, Tieiny Tivos, belineed to the Rewolittoniry way and owas 


eormeisstened as Hentemint ty General Wasnrneron, first: President and com- 


radnder-n-chiet of the 


ry id navy of the United Stites, who died at Moni 


yy 


Vernon. deeply hantedites eof friends, on the Hth of Decen 


Hag ot pavieteatit, avl wus tril soat wterttis Gent, with military honers, 


ras bivst in firing salnres, 


General Wasiinates presided over the rest 


acl Spink meeting that formed ony can tie: alte 
eH ome Ve He was first ia PA pans coped rad 
i Doan ails PAP tir % dhaugh hewas india ofthe Uae 
ress ENE mht blal ediesion > avd from what he-sxaid ii Mis fire 


“ T have my dawht be wohl have voted for the tartiY of PAdi at te 


td Teen vive, and becl wt Mal dicd sometime beforehand, fis death was erim- 


up, Ss rather premature, om account of its Veins Wroueit on div 


N SSE AL tah Re Hie SANT ERT {or af deheral Wovsiisacrtas, 1 
: m ee vce cn Hl rhe belt creat thts atti Rae errs! 
ford ae ina, Sree ety OO ee thee eared 
Ih hee Np Dinas CURL) Chtocdy, Of 7 Tatep We tee cpg Sgt ] @ fiat 


We wish to enitedin tis enlowy in these pages asi 


fine specimen of the “Trane Style of forensie clone PRR 


216 - Csi FoR re ieee tae, 


‘Tae ery is still they” go—the crowded ships for ali 


fornial very steamer that arrives, bringing tht “preia 
metal? returns with damedreds upon lamdreds of cawer aa 


ventarers atter the * dust? beside ineitia@ all sorts of wetter- 
eraft and all sorts of people to follow in their wake: whale 
inmimerable Jaud-companies aul caravans are movies on- 
ward to the same land of promise. Ahi how tew of 
these vold-seekors think of the discomforts, the privations, 
the perils, they may have to eneounter!—or how dn 
1 


who have wone, with Tieht and eager hearts, 


worn down by disease and suiferine, have t laid: them dost, 


3 


in their last sleep i And there, by the bleak Alerrics SNe, 


4 a . . . . 
or (he rushing frver’s bank, they rest any ther sweat 
OAV ES 3 
‘No stone por monaniental eross 


Tells where their monldering ashes He, 


Who sought for coll and feed it dross! 


Touar was an unfortunate member of the English Daa 
hanpent whose seat, when Seeretary, was the onfstde ane, 


eat to a passage-way, [Te said that seo tany inemburs 


Hee! to come pernetiuilly to whisper to hin ard the be, 
of nopertinity was so heavy and continuous, that besere 


pie clavate snes. tad t ont Of dia cee | sili 
ane claiiants worls lad cot out of bis car, Fie eae 


| 
Gl atoll 


ver Yoram Tis sear ti. Ol the earshron, beste 


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ests Rae AS de Po OT, 24 


charced. absolutely burst: which, he said, tumed out con- 


venientiy euoreh, as he was then obhived to stuf the 


1 


ersau tole and tell every gentleman that lis: plivsiemn 


Had directed Lim mot to use thaé ear at all, and the other 
as litte as possible! Some of our oflice-givers had better 


adopt a similar ruse. 


Ix some grave-vards one shall scarecly see a stone 
that lias net a pious verse, or a passage from Scripture, 
after the general inseripiion t and that these are not al- 
Ways uppropriate, or in the best taste, we have sometimes 
shown in the Kwickersocker, The following Inscription 
Muy be seen on tt gravestone in the county of Greene, in 
this State: * Mere les the body of Jomsyxes Surrn, aged 
sixty-four years and two mouths, *@o thow and do 


Likewise’ * Comprehensive, that! 


The Inve Lite a Man! delivered bw Mr Carnes 
MsGhwiite ats Denis, Now: het stes ia" Sti ae ltbhbe shat 
fortivtiee. From it we derive the following Dermutiful 
tras: Which Ave comnrenud tothe heart of evers: lover 
of bis kind to Ttis a maxniea patriotism wever to despair 
of the republie. Ler it bethe motte of our philanthropy 


never to despair of our sinning, surrowing brother, ull lis 


OAS Ne ca yer 


> SN. ue 


last Jingering dook upon tite tas becom takem and all 

aVedilies by Whi "et rd oes approdch thi Fae te fs a TW ee 

closed and silent forever, Amd im sueh sp emer. ep afi 

counsel be taken of narrow, Rieeard sentiment, When 
eS ae ai ate 

4 sea-storm some human being is seem ta the cist <nin 


2 


clinging to a plank, that is sometimes daiver nearer to the 
shore, wud sometimes carried farther oi: somaetimes ieee! 
in the surge, and then rising again, as if ise stiie sine, 
like the almost hopeless sufferer it supports, whe tool 


sadly to the shore as he rises from every wave. and ba 


with the billow, mingles his ery for help with i 


mournful scream of the sea-bird : Nature, in every fb 


31 
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on the shore, is instinct with amxious pity for 
darts her svinpathies to hinn over the 
The child drops his play-thines, aid old 


. 
and the ha 


eruteh: and hurries to the spot: Wah a 
fling a rope is lifted to heaven for help What i 
thi sufferer iv: 2 Strpincr & TORUS? Fike a, 
Nature. yn trontle, mm. consternation, shrieks © #7 
map !* and every heart and hand is ya Wipt 
rescus 

ly 8 niusIbe | ) parr” the 
towne bread “eraren « morest thatients 
hh A trend tells iis tha wir irom the ya 
who had vistted a contiry town 1 thong 4 


v 4 


\y Mba 
upp! 
eh 
tyne) 
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ASV Orer (I iear sity. (Nae Saree: 2G) 


New-York, was filled with surprise at the sight of a girl 


c 


milking a eow. ‘To did at know that wou did it that 


wav t? she exclaimed, with ‘reuindl-eved wonder?’ ©] 
thoueht they took hold of the cow's tail and pumped the 
milk.out of her? What's she got so long a tail for?’ 
Lhere was x wise child for this ‘enlightened nineteenth 


century !? 


HraninG funtly, just now, from the nursery overhead, 
the faithful nurse Mary-Asy rocking and plaintively sing- 
ing to the little girl of two years in her arms, who is very 
fair and dear in the eves and hearis of those who love her 


A 


best, we opened the sanctum-door into the hall, and lis- 


tened to lear the melody take shape in these words : 


“Rock of Ages! cleft for me, 

Let me hide myself in Tin! 

Let the water and the biood 

From Tuy riven side which flowed 
Beot sin the double eure: 


Cleanse ine from its guilt und power ! 


‘Not the Inbors of my hands 
Can fall Tiry law's commands : 
Could my zeal no respite know, 
Could my tears forever flow, 
A’l for sin could not atone: 


Tov must save. and Tuo alone! 


11* 


250 A Cee nen srss Corer eei pros res. 


‘Nothing in my hand T bribe, 


vt hay crossed cling? 
Naked, come to Ture tor dress, 
Helpless, lock te Tries for grace 
Foul, 1 to tie Fomiiain Ty, 


Wash me, Saviorrk! or Dilie? 


‘While I draw this fleeting brearh. 
Whea my eves are closed in death, 
When I soar te warids unknown, 

To meet Theron Tay judgment throne, 
Rika Angus!) eter for tm, 


Lisi me ide myself in Tinie! 


WN ] Te} } , ‘ } 
NOW Re We GHOsed tae COT, abd rested the a a a 
, ; 4 2 1 ; 
Wer CONSENS OF & sriOW OF raiinde 1 oP IS Tat 
Gap had madé the heart of Woman tender md Joie a 
7 . A ae } ] » KE + bile Sans ae 3 
infancy and efilbihoead and that the Cyrene ie | pie bls ah ie Wy a | 


our own ditth: bonbs reyerentiv remembered the Gown 
Stieruenp, into whose fold we hope they shail one day be 
exuthered. 

Dip vou never meet with a condensing couversntiotist, 
like Dicwews’s “Afrs, Gane 2”. We have bean fans an 


old ferivale cossip *lump’ the aubieets of Gonversatien tu 


precisely the manner of that genth: and temperate mate. 
. a 

[ere isa fair specimen of her power of compression, and 

of her skill tm Ivitinge two or mora birds with ote stone? 


LOW AGNILOUNR ERs CEI one da Cun ienee Dirk 


Hanrist her husband's tre:her bein six fvou three, and marked with a mad 
bull in Weriniseroxs Sots upon his lem arm, on account of Lis precious 
mother havin’ been worrited by one Into a shoemaker’s shop. Wie Tar a Sifts 
Watton which blessed is the man as has his quiver tall of seeh, as many tinies 
I've said to Gamp when words has rege betwixt us on account of the expense! 
ard otten have I sanl to Mes. Waris, *Oh, Mrs. Wainis, Ma‘anr? yorr coun 
teniumee Is quite a angel's which, biutfor piniples, i. wowld be. ‘Ne Sainey 
Gawr, says she, ‘you bestof hard-workiw and industrious ereeturs ascver 
was nnderpald at any price, which underpaid vorare — quite diffrent. Wanris 
hud Th dome wore marringe at ten-dnidl-six’ she says, “and wore it taithtul mest 
his heart ti, tid cab tin, whey the money awa deined to he cive Hacky and 
To wiiMebinenit tun Le come vo) Tint hewever salt Was a ai ears, SAN, 
Wworever te night dave thonebt. It Misc Tiunts's bsbated was irre bow satd 
Mrs Gap, lookive round. and echuckibig as she dropped ie getierdl Gaurtesy, 


ies a Teese 
Shed speck oud plain, 


he wold, and lis dear wite would be the dast to lla 
him: fur if ever a woman lived as know d not wot it was to form: a wish to pizon 
them as had good looks, and had no resgion give her by the best of husbands, 


Mrs, Haass fs that “ev nly dispogician !’ 


A Suaner friend at Hancock told us recently that he 
saw Loxeszo Dow ‘walking among the tombs,’ alone, and 


muttering to himself, early one morning, in the principal 


grave vard of a village in Connecticut. He soon collected 
a great number of lookers-on, when he mounted the stone- 
wall, and exclaimed in his peculiar voice: ‘One vear from 
this dav [shall preach on this spot at six o'clock in the 
morning. And T want you to know that when I say six, 
lL aean six: Tdowt mean seven, nor Gaht’ Of course 
the news of this appointment soon sprend s through all the 


revion of the country round about! Just twelve months 


ae Ae Pi BS shea ea ee 


from that day, at precisely six in the morning, aud in 


presence of tore than twenty thousand people Lonisze 
rose from the lone rink oryass of the oravesvird, Where he 


= 
‘ 4 


had been sleeping, mounted the wall, and prenehed a tau 


tastic, quaint, vet eloquent discourse. * which awill nevegelie 


forvotten, said our informant, * by an ho Herel 1 


4 


Ir has been snowine since list nieht’s wheurmdine toa 


soft, warm, driving, feathery snow 2 we telf a pretmonmition 


of it*in our boues* last evening, winle we were sopo- 


1 : or riot: ae Ed Wie Swiss Are ‘ 
bling : and this morning, lo! the bare trecs im bie shit 


ure all riled ip with the or rth fro 4) rail 3 th). ine (iat 


witidow-shutters and the hamp-postst ard tere is a mad 


] 
Hed sound of shovelling snow from the balcmivs, steps. 
4 res ' eo apr, Sees BORE SRS eh 
and: side-walks: and the nnzine lanehier ef .chibilias 
ate cau Ane ao ere ae ESE ; d a 
SM tae TON DATE Of WINKOW-SUTERETS 1 Me hens 
ee 5 
but attempered wind, i Also heard: < wt Ne : 
among them, toa, with a pair of paternal ae Wee 
too wide’ for his 1H * Supp } witch ana 
bir ‘ $4 rw \ are} bart VV ties | ! 
jams As ihe 3 ee a thong Wi [os haf 
re | ‘ 
fe Tia pe 1 1 
PORTERS 4 ~ ‘ its 
| ‘ . ? 
which. wae suemestedd ts ; Nie ey 


DE Ce Oe ae See ASN en “aye 


heel? ancedote tu our last gossipry: An amazing pair of 
fect appenred in the barreoia of an ambitious village-im, 
Itt one evenime, the owner of which inquired auxiously 
tor the boot-black. The bell rane nervously, and tna a mio- 
ment a keen Yankee illustrator of ‘Day asp Martis’s 
best’ ‘pepped ints the room. "Brag me a jack? 
claimed the man ol ereat Sunder-standing.” The waite 
Involuntarity started forward, bat chaneine to catch a 
elinipse of the boots, he stopped short, and alter another 
. ies . ‘ : 
aud closer examination said, with equal isane and ein- 
eee Ob dae eat at eo ee e6, Sr Ce ORM Ee ae ea 
Pietsts Saw VOOu, YO MiNU Re GCHy GO have “THs WGres 
in at hurry you “ve got too good a hold onto the eround, 
Nott 20 nso eh? Whivy bless vour suul, there aia 
a bootyjack on amth ore eum for thew boots! 1 do art 
ae pee ad jrek-exs could eet "em off?) ‘My stars! 
mitt” eral oarinend of the. bio: feet, ‘what il Ido? f 
eat get thy boots of withont-a jack ?? *T tell vow what 
LT shevatel do,’ Vetriiedd : Boors, Yat they was mie: | 
shemll walk back tothe fork of the raud, and paul “em off 


theme. Chat syonhk foteh Tem, T eness 2 


is ee y Ae oer: ‘ ; 

Way ddsve lide taste ot AW itvieae: arid wo are ped 
minke wonitvit. tab slorchine ts one? Hs opindest cel ics 
Nil rtee We SMA I ate ak cape hat (ele Sores 


254. Wists ch in ayn Cove ens 


Merry bells * oliding seutters, sleivhs, *punys— Paik thine 
that has ruuners, and can be drawn by cattle — bright taces, 
scores of parties, huddled in’ sweet hay, under warn butt 
faloskins : mulled wine: what a delicious assem! lage of 
pleasant matters! Reader, did vou never cnynze in a 
sleioh-ride / Then is the elixir of life hy wou ubitasted, 
Geo out on a weld morning in winter, ten miles from the 
city, over a well-trodden road, after a deep snow, which a 
slight north-east mist, dving away at dast in a southern 
Jull,inakes damp and alib! Mark the brown woods? the 
blue hills, pale, clear, and stately in the distatiee: the jin 
prisoned rivers, where the skater whees on his shinin 
heel: the whitened plains: the clonds, rmehty bedi 


every hue! “Tis a sight to renrember: 


Sol be meee mn Ts. Of Metres, 255 


Deep in the womb of earth — where the gems grow, 
And diamonds put forth radiant rods, and bud 
With amethyst and topaz —and the place 

Lit up most royally, with the pure beam 

That dwells within them, Or baply the vast hal 
Of fairy palace, that outlasts the night, 

And fades not in the glory of the sun: 

Where ervstal coliimaus send forth slender shafts 
And crossing arches + anid fhntastic cists 

Wind from the sight in brightness, and are lost 
Among the crowded pillars. [taise thine eve: 
Thow seest no cavern roof, no palace vault: 
There the blne sky and the white drifting cloul 
Lov in, Again the wildered finey dreams 

Of spouting fountains, frozen as they rose, 

And fixed, with all their branching jets, in air, 
And all their sluices sealed. All, all is Heht —- 


Light without shade ! 


Arhin is. come .acains aud the Iineseasoti, has 
opeued with great activity. Did you ever remark, when 
Nature begins to waken from her winter-sleep ; when the 
woods * beyond the swelling floods’ of the rivers begin to 
redden; when the snow has left us, and the city-trees are 


about leave-ing ; when the first airs of spring assume their 


gs 
natural blaundness; when ladies are out with their ‘spring 
hats? and carmen with their spring-carts ; how innumer- 
ous kites begin to thicken in the air? Yonder a big un- 


wielly fellow rises with ealin’ dienity, trailing lis lone tail 


wih great prepricty behind bing: here a little bustling 


crenture ducks and dives, eoqueiing first on this side, then 


ae A Se os ee : : 
iat: “Unt Maas Urn Dwa Gf They At Se a 


almost reaches the earth > but soon rises at w rap eee ay died 
sails far up into the bright bine virmament. Leek! fe 
air is full.of them! Tt is « charnehe adinscinenie tie 


a v A UNG a TR 


kite-fying of the boys. We ores 


Wh3 4 2 a.g aay p32 tpi ae ae 
AIROUST We ave “OUP OF OU Tens; Prhele oS Sobre bhi 
x NALA as are Foe 8 ee ER ; ; ; ees 
BtheTresn) 1 14. SOMeEINING TAL ATES Wh Tie Ali see 
I : 
rauion, 
“KO BAS 
and the mysterious realm that 3 bevond tie Weise Bom 
‘ 
{res thy wMetropoiian wWvyanies ado 7 Yi ye Ware iter 
P 2 $4 “ 5 
eonstrict, “em Than, tissne-paper thaws, wiin teehee & 
| 4 ’ 

them heyond that of a conitised sexacon no Paes era 
head, and less for a tail, these Are ihe machine wer Se 

; 1 14 1 “i iz iat ql 
iierine and Dob! Huokny ere SKiie (ees Bi { 
‘ any How ‘unhke. the walnuwi-hew oad” Gadeiee 
} ips weit & porwrpretet repre. ; iste 
' : hair? aa 3 LOWPEDSE SATs: 4s ey 
arg pay s ricaming ihe si i Lone aie ie 
: 1 a 9 i 
. } i 1 + ie | 
I ELS i \ O {Aass Ana ie tes MiSsheres 

ios 1 

t Hn Ot sn 1b “ae ae ae 

Ba : Wie tare Wwe] the | s pute he 
— mens ’ that we lee ia 


Seoranin Maa Cts Ot ee itl 


adad ean testify, who las been flvine kites in our + best! 
as we daily wend to aml from the sanetuins We ecintl 
leuthy ask our juvenile friends, did we ever see a kite. how- 
sHever stmul or ignoble, lodged in it LE CES Oe Se telewraph 
wire, or twisted round a telegraph-pole, or a chimney, 
¥ lg: 


without renderme immediate and ‘valuable assistance 7 


Never }— and af the dyspeptic Wallstreet broker, who 
envied the aitention of his sneerime chum the other morn 
ine ta Nd Katek.” descending a tree, a disabled kite in 
his diam, and a ‘solution of continuity’? in his trowser- 
loons, will call up in our street, we will give him a little 
Hlustration of the ‘luxury of doing good? The brivht. 
volden-haired boy whe owned that kite, Mr Broxne, 
knows how to be erateful 5 and if we should lieresfier ever 
(ourish in Wallstreet, in your Tine, he would: send tis the 
Vat of slaving = *jiapet’ fo; “be: lad ti *thesstieeh 5 aia 
we Garr tel yo teo, My, Pourmrenosx, that if im the pa 
res af events, we slould chance to be ‘wp? for some of 
fice in the otal this our wood old Ksrexciknoeckar ity, 
flint dad avould be *e@ood for? titty votes, We ean only 
suv, that onee Grow municipal offiee, of the prover te 
seriptin, Guu best exe rijons shall net be wanting to ten 


how wt teltomiph: poles wid wires, — Tdeetrreniyeds 


equ tetiirition, wo doubt, sad wemables vs te “eigew tt 


. 


murders’ inthe morning papers toa ereater extent than 


formerly > but telegraphs were never intended to dntertere 


258 Soar i) aerate “ae Sra 


he tyested rights’ of hoys engreed in kit-ilhvire: 


wh 
a 


never! The destruction in this Iwanels Gf dusituss 4s 
oresuiy eres ne. Look at the raved skeletous, tlt dente 


most fossil remains, t 


at flap and writhe pou the wires 
and posts, where they have been witbhetted —-+ lean, rent 
and begeared by the sirumpet wind 17 * What + underhes* 
all this evil?) The telegraph system. Boys, *To the 
poles ! down with the poles!” should be the raliving ery. 
They are aristocratic: they are unconstitutional t they are 
worse than the * Witmor proviso!’ Such amd) so many 
have been the wreeks of kit fe, ‘she on the hil Hrs 


of air? that juvenile enterprise has been diverted ta other 
channels; anda virulent cruption of whipetope. * eros 
under the Jash? has broken out, and is spreading all over 
the metropolis: driving the aged from the walks, invading 
the delicate feet and ankles of our lovely female pedestri- 
ans, and playing the very deuce with the interior of their 


beautiful white under-dresses. 


Oe GoM Dy fete Wi ed ea 


BEEUSEMINT OF TMEEHES CK? COMING-ON GF SPRING Is WIth 18 GRIN oy 
man ee CM GIO! TERE ONASPEAT A Aine SrieEes 2? ries eea= 
DEN SOUNAS, yh NOITU AREAS ES sy LISI DAS, CUM: Same Ses 
MAST My SVEN TAL DOCUMENT: ARP AECI ISS: LE Sort Pere 
CRAIN SSP EUSSED SAW SPAaNte A? eRe Myo Mee) Wan 
ENC: VANS (APENERS BS AGAGLERER EET AOStinU: SA eeD: POTS iets 
Wome ingots. iiunaie: Soh ACK So? PRA ICDIOS s SWING: “A SAE CS 


Poet bo Wily betes Che TEL TANS 


N olden times there was a distinct class of itinerants 
in New-Eneland, whe were called ‘ cider-beguars. One 

of them, on a Sanday morning, called at a farm-house, 
wid finding only the ‘woman of the house? at liome, was 
quite imiportunate in his demands for Old-Orchard?  ILe 
was firmly and perseveringly dented, As a last resort, he 
reuinded the pious lady that she should remember the 
Seriptural injunction to entertain strangers, ‘for thereby 
many had entertained angels unawares” *T will risk that) 
sald shes: ‘for who ever heard ef an angel gone about 
Sunday moruing beyeing for cider 1? 
‘Tadlvise vou to go to work,’ said an Americni tn Lone 
don toa beggar, who was pertinactousty beseeching him 


for a shilling: ‘you are a hearty, hale fellow: T advise 


200. LEO MALIN Ee 


veu ta vo to work. ‘To asked vou for your aoura: I 
did wt ask vou tor your aderce J* was the cool reply. Al 
nti 


imost as impudent as the Spinish ameunted Tegear in 


Valparaiso, who replied to the remark of a pedestrian 


traveller, * Why, Sir, vou come to bee of mie, 


Who aim 
compelled to go on foot, while you ride on horseback 2 
‘Very true. Sie: and T have the more weed? to hee, for] 
lave to support iny horse and myself toot so be so wood 


as to linndover!’ So very reasonable was this propost 


tion, that it was at once complied with! 


UnLm wintareiee ts Hal and gage 
And 3 fan Dimes an ere ! 
The recd- breast peeps one barat 
Of weod-brown Birds Warsow be 


all the land abeut, and all the flowers that Iiawst° the 
OT Rone orass the bad ling iteos, fhe artictl at te deen 
pioughed earth, the transparent driskwess of the sprig 
bike. a0 DPABOIT 4 lions and pore Tas to the tic eelera 
hyarsiey. edi ect}: As 2 - qi ahh Sine 
poat Say 


The bls tata Nim we lenite 
Woe wWarrlvlic pleat Meat Ge 7 


Wve beasts Unewhadle: The kort 


Dip vou ever have the thought of waar is Now-—xat 
the moment while vou happen to thaw that you are think- 
inv—in Event and in Nature, in various and firdivided 
putts of tlie world? Say of scenery, for exaraple; your 
Hnntination shall take you to the vast crackling iee-fields 
of Norway, or the rushing maelstrom, circling and eddy- 


ing day and night, as it ‘sweeps its awful evele :? or the 


vest Ningara eatrract rolling its solemn roaring floods to 
Ontartie and the Atluntie: or the sublime rocky heights 
that tre between us and the Pacifie; and the bontedless 


prairticbis that stretch away fron their * eit feet t? or 


coe tremscendend Villa tu Italy, sleeping inthe purple adr 
tiider Alpine shadows, with groups of figures. suchas ane 
se dm autre amarbles > or in seme kindred seewe in 
Didia, where the evenine’s breath is oppressive with per- 
foe, aul the midest sound that breaks the stillness is the 


SS Nae fe aK el a tie Wwood-plevon, Ce li the <literty fleolit Pend ny 


; ; ; ‘ sa bs BMI Fe 
LAC ehihiee KIS RIM FSU RTT RU lagayta bare ates, ACE an hamieahonn ars 
= . ih Le 
' \ i as ad ae eG Aiea ay 
DN NM eR ate el Mh iw ie Sd Ss a AN a] tal Aaa ras 
‘ ‘ % s a) f 7 | 7 
he thie mar harm: Le ahileh asl aml clushGrs, aby are 


Sistine 2 oy wher the Atal waters Wis thervest itt voto 


(4) 
a 
iu 
BS. 


Leak: “Oe sori 


dates, or with the remote inhabitants of countries that the 
sun delays to look upon? Did) vou ever firuh) of Nature 
In this way, at one and the stime moment /—and in the 
like manner of devents 2 In one conutry, fierce battles 
ravings in another, the people just begining to rejoice im 
the beams ef peace; here national dappiness and tran 
quillity ; there discord and eriet; a land *rent with civil 


feuds, and drenched in fraternal blood 2° 


Iv is generally known, we believe, that a deaf perso 
by watching the motions of a s] 
stated what one Js sayin’. We have beard of 9 (Nal iB 
worn, Who was dent, whe used rewiairly to we to ines 


ing, wid without hearing a single word, could devertheless 


report every thing that was said. One * Parstelay” she 


ene home without being able to eve anv neecount of the 


Gscourse, Her vision was impaired: and whi asked amy 
1 1 1 1 . 
1 t LA? tis exer it eee Be ot pole’ ew { eur 
; 
tine about 4 [went to meeting and forver iy cspiad 


well, het a eink anto -vonr. heart of eatiss aad, Mies 
means Of awakening there some sympathy for a tains 


silfering sister, who by no fault of hers is the sof sla a 


‘Lert nO Mn byes ot One. 263 


‘Tank, that rustle of a dress, 

StiY with lavish costliness 5 

Tere comes one Whose cheeks would fish 

3ut to have her garments brash 
“Gainst the girl whose fingers thin 
Wove the weary broidery in: 
And in midnight’s chill and mirk 
Stitched her life into the work: 
Bending backward from her toil, 
Lest her tears the silk might seil: 
Shaping from her bitter thoucht 
ITeart’s-case and Forget me-not: 
Satirizing her despair 


With the emblems woven there!’ 


These lines, which would do honor to any poet in 


Christendom, are from the pen of Jastes Russenn Lowrer, 


Wr do not often envy any human being: but we con- 
fess to havine entertained something of this feeling toward 
the possessor of a beantiful house and charming grounds, 
which we pass daily, in a fashionable quarter of the town, 
during the pleasant October days, But one morning we 
saw the owner mnong his grapes and flowers and foun- 
tains: @ tall, care-worn, thin-visazved man, who stood 
tremblinely on ‘his pins? and surverved Tas beautiful pos- 
sessions, Ah thoneht we, there i a ‘compensation? in 
esoryethine, “What -plensure can ihe to thea’ says an 


eloquent divine, ‘to wrap the living skeleton in purple. ad 


2H4 Muntrroe . A ek wer fe 


winner ative in cloth-of-eoh, when the clothes saree vans 


ms, ctl thre ried dare 


waid the uselessness of thy lima! 
cr) Tory ie thi ots aye aniitiges te sai Ara fi | é 

DUS! PepVower Wee, SV TAD LE ReS DTS" Waa ee ae ay, 
stomach ! Sir * fet us to our mutton, with that wound li- 


westion which waits on an appetite that is most like a 


hungry annecenda’s, 


A fripep af ors from the Sonth, amended ie 


other day a fameral sermon which he heard in North Cyr 


oink vot leng since, that set even cam assoetate Onwy 


a-winkine. Parson S$ ——, a raiher cocewin: Character, Was 


ealled upon to * preach the faneral’ of a hard ease, nan 
Ranxsx, whieh he did in the followine nine stylet “Mie 


' | 1 4 * 
heloyed Lreitren and sistern + ef onpdear 


Rawn would a-wanted somebody to come hers, and gel 
hes about lim. and make bom onta better man thes 
war, lhe woull nt a-chose me to * proach his fiers Nix 
my brethren, he wanted to be held up asc burno atet a 
shimin’ light to warn you from the errer of Your ways, 
He kept horses, and he run’d “em: he kept chickes, aid 


he font “em: he kept women, and there sits his wichom 


) "1 ' ) 1 
ES we DYE 1a \ \ bi Mahe ee ee Be wee a eer 
1 1 ’ 
Hist and here o 3 Wee ee any 
1 rua iaAay war Oa ee Be, fs 
H 
‘ ) \ 1 1 

\ rut) WAS wl I | e by a2 f bt | it, as ee | 


AW irae ert ee OIE: MRIS rn ieee MEE) IHD 
son Pere hove himself in jailt amd the last and greatest 


warmin of all was when he dicd himself! 


The prencher 
enlarge lon these toptes until he had sunk [ass so low 
that his hearers begun to doubt whether he would ever 
succeed in getting him up again, and, as is usnal in ‘fu 
nerals’ Janding inn safely in Aprataws bosom, This 
was the object of the second part of the sermon, which 
started off thuss. “My brethren, there ‘Ib be great. me- 
racles, greet meracles in Weavex. And the first meracle 
will be, that many you expect to find there vou won't see 
there. The people that go round with lone faces, makin’ 
lony prayers, won't be there ; and the second meracle will 
be, that many you do n't expect to find there, as perhaps 
some wot expect to find our dear departed brother Rasy, 
you ‘Tl see there: and the last and greatest meracle will 
be. to find vomrselees there!” + There is not one single 
worl of exaveeration, said the narrator, Sin this. It is a 


literal transcript? 


ii 
} 


Tut tollowine lines were penned by Lord Nozoo, in 


WS 3 ae is buted appeared it the SS about the fie 


SET MIR cea PoC One eh re WH ER eee en Vane Op Pa bi 
fou f * tte 
1 tho i STOW 
‘ tS ate oman lic, 
* Plo Wis his tress iol codese Hae tares 
Ile wor lis fod — the Lurp kuuws where. 


Hig) 


206 Tan, Myer pey Om Spee 


“Wis pravers were short, his wants were few ; 


He had a friend —- the Lone hows who, 


‘No care nor trouble vexed lis lot: 


He had a wish —the Lorp knows what. 


*At length this holy man did die; 


He lett the world — the Lono knows why. 


‘Hes buried in a gloomy cen, 


And he shail rise —the Lop knows when!? 


Have you never felt, just at the season of aiid Meareh 
the force and truth of the ensutne observations 2 Or 
only wonder is, that another should lawe expressed so yer 
feedy our own thouelits and emotions. a lamedred tines 
awakened and experienced, i the early ‘spring 

the vears? * There is ascertain melancholy in the evenites 
m4 e er " ae a vb ae Ma ; 
of early spring, which ts among those tiflaeneces of qiture 
the inmost universally recognized, the most ditfiend: to ex- 
wplain. The silent stir of reviving life, which does not yet 
betray signs in the bud and blossom; only in a setter 
clearness in the air a mere lingering pause in the slowly 
lenethentig clay ‘a more detieate freshness aud Palin cain 
the twilh: 


r 


i! } ey haan 
ht atmosphere; a more lovew vet still minyiie 


note fron the birds, settline dowgaiske disp daeertent ik 
varie sense woder all thedé tuéhoowhieh: alt eerie 


wears the bleak siathiv of winter the baat oleae 


Ned ZEROMFO SOME HDA bone We rece. ABT 


hourly, momently at work — renewing the youth of the 
world, re-clothing with vigorous bloom the skeletous of 
thines: all these messages trom the heart of Nature to 
the heart of Man may well atfect aud move us. But whiy 
with imelancholy 2? No thought on our part connects end 
construes the low, eeile Vordes, 9 Tt ts aad Thonght aura 
replies amd reasons > itis Aeeferg that hears and dreams, 
Examine not, O child of man? — examine not that myste- 
nous inelancholy with the hard eves of thy reason: thou 
east not impale it on the spikes of thy thorny logic, nor 
desertbe its enchanted circle by problems conned from thy 
scliools,  DBorderer thyself of two worlds — the Dead and 
the Living -- vive thine ear to the tones, bow thy soul to 
the slivlows. that steal, in the season of chanow, tron ihe 


chin aoeapebae Leer EL? 


‘Nov doug since writes an old friend and correspond: 
ent. Sas Lo owas retuming from Buthde, [owas amused, 
while the cars made a momentary step, wt a demonstra- 
fionimebe by acrazy nan, on hits way to the Stree Lane 
ti: Asvitin, at Cuca. Te was standing onthe track, in 


eh 


front of the *drewdiarse +7 * You think vou are somethine 


¢ dol fissure 


ia 


he said looking wildly at the locomotive 


7 


iw lox attitude; *but look of here: T can wip you? 


Pve flogged the fiery bulls af Bashenyand bichon thet 


20S AO ATE es 2G ® 


horns off) Say t—do mt you stund there, whistling and 
smoking Tike a blackguard an a bar-room: jest jump to 
weoand LU take the conceit out ef you, you d —d old 


ecookiug-stove on wheels yi 


Eniiorr, the eminent portrait-painter, * laid) himself 
out? ona pun the other morning, as he was walking down 
town with a friend, in a faintly-drizzlmg mist, so fine as 
scarcely to he perceptible to the naked OVO “Tf qt sheuld 
stop altogether? said *Crarnrey tito wonld nt be aarssed Hs 
This has been carefully kept from the daily journals, and 
‘now first appears in print’ PS. Mr. Enrroerr dirs re 
covered, and anay still be found at his reoms, *tirst feor 
from the root” of the Art-Union Biilding, where may alse 
be seen mtuuerous new pictures from dis industrious and 
ficile pencil: each one informed with that perteetly Tie: 
hike individuality of expression, whether in color linea- 
nent, position, or drapery, which will render his portraits 


as lasting as the canvas upon which they are prounted, 


vine now. for A aMan owith eo eee a Thaht aie ie 


Geert N. eNeO Nn Ke Sian. 259 


one day into the stall shop of a boot-maker’s in the 
flourishing capital of old Erie, and asked Crrspiy if he 
could make him a pair of boots. Looking at his long 
splay pedal extremities, and then glancing at a huge un- 
eut cow-hide that hung upon the wall, he said,‘ Well, 
ves, | guess so” § What time will vou have them done? 
To-day is) Monday’ * Well, it “Hl depend on cireum- 
stances; TD euess Dean have “em done for vou by Satur- 
dav. Ou Saturday, therefore, the man called for his 
boots + * ave you got “em done ?? said he, as he entered 
the little shop. ‘No, T have wt—T could wt: it las 
rained every day since [took your measure” ¢ Tidned 17 
exclaimed the astonished patron; ‘well, what of that? 
What had thet to do with it??  § What had iar to do 
with it 27 echoed Crisprs 3 fit had a good deal to do with 
it. When Damedce your boots LT ve got ba do tt aut doure, 


for) baw at roony in my shop, and [ can’t work. ant 


doors i rainy werther!? Tt was the same man of + lirge 
itederstaneline? whom the porters used to bother so. when 
be tecled from ac steamer. They would rush up to din, 
seize holt of Tis feet, saving, ‘Where shall T tuke your 


Diagyade, Sir? Where ?s this traak to Oey, Sing? 


NE shall not be sO indiscreet Sto Mee the Xe) uber 
rey 


cereyman uoninst whem a eorrespoudent dnvewhs bit 


270 A *Parereu-ok Serko 


terly, in that, * living heard ered ihities of hitmay he went 
to hear him, and came: away disappointed? “Phe sub- 
jetued lines are quoted at the conclusion of our corre 
spondent’s commentary, as ‘expressing exactly what the 
writer desired to deseribes Tf the Tmanine be faithful. the 


\: 


divine aust have won the suffrages of those who atect 


‘interesting preachers 2? 


‘Oyvn ruling Powers 


Of Poesy salblim rive me to sing 

Phe senders of that sermon! The bold a-hem, 
The look anblime, that beamed with confidence, 
"; , , } , 

i & ! 1 ’ bs a | | ail uy 1 Vt ’ 
{ tory GB { 


AG OG12s iota Ser tayo op Lute ti ase ert Noe Bit 


Yar sibjoined anecdote of a demagogue-candidate for 
cle Legislature cf a western State, a man of low moral 
stature, has been sent us by a new correspondeut + * There 
Was a ‘stump-speaking, and Apyer G, 1) —— had the 
platform, enlightening ‘the unterrified’ long and loudly. 
» Pellow-citizens’ said he, ‘L now come to a slanderous 
ramer whieh las been most dastardly cireulated against 
ine from one end of the county to the other My enemies, 
not content with endeavoring to ruin iny political prospects, 
lheve assassin-like attempted to blast my vood name by 
their insidious reports’ *Apyer’? then stated what the 
Yumier was, and continued: *T rejoice, fellow-citizens, to 
have it in my power instantly to fasten the Tie upon this 
] 


Juahciows aud 


atrocious slander, I seo among vou one of 
1 LAP U SA TSE tg nee ees, oy Den atY s US ad : 
the Dosh estitiire enizeus Of Ws COMRTV, Wise characte) 
for trite aud integrity is above all question, Squire 
Sclioorkn, to whom ff allude, is acquatmted with all the 
facts, cued Pcall on him here to state whether this rumor 
is irie or false. PT pause for a reply? Whereupon Squire 
Scooter slowly arose, aud in lis strong, slow, and sono- 
Tots coiressa S SY apatlermtiiinke pw dedu Tks Aare 
ove od scommnivel  exelmined: Anyi “whe doin 
mierrupt me. While Tam discussing ereat constitutional 
quest lois, with vour low personalities 77 And Jie aeeom- 
b 


panied this objurgarory exelamation with such a ‘surge’? of 


POO Y Pie: OAs wre se tee Ut Sy ae eee 


gesticulation, that he stepped back bevond the platform, 
tell backward on a big dow, amid the howls of which, and 
the deafening roars of the ‘sovereigusy the qieeting was 


effectually broken up. 


‘fe vou wish to hear a little spechuen of Yankee “cute: 
ness, just listen to this colloguy, which we heard the other 
day in the comnting-house of a mercantile trend: + A min 
kind 6 picks up a good many idees abeout. TP dant a 
few in Wallstreet’ ‘In Wall-street 2? ‘Yes: “see, | 
sticied i ecut while J was stagedivin , | are ee Sa 


change tovether: did wt know where to pce 1S reget 
n't lire it eGut Tum, “cause Powis pleadin’ poverty all the 
time: threat, ‘sea, would n't: dent so i BOs deown tind 
claps it in the Drs Dock Dank > get jive per cent. tew. 
Had a brother thair whe was teller, Che day [ "vin a 
eheck for fitty dollars: all right. Atdast the bauk got in 
trouble: Thad some tour or five thousand dollars ¢ [ wes 


toany brother and draws eout iy money t he pros tie in 


Bank of ——— notes, Well, T took “om hitm, dat thes 
forvot to iake wont ray check of fifty dollars, So T ees, 
ame sex [, ‘Lowe you tity that von laint chargel je: 

you take your owh notes 7” ‘Sartin’ soz thoes Saad 


aye ‘om in wotes that | howe hl at jwenty-live off, = ie 


i woo] specs Sie fr sy { ies ASU Te SPCR buges . Ph apie ee NG 


Se ve a the ilea’ sia a 


me hehe over “ein” So T walked into the 


, took off my hat, and looked arcane us 

i what Iwas abeout. [ kuowd the cashiers a 

1 exupt : § Say!” seg he, * what nedw t—how? or : 
p Sal stcil,\ sea Tyr? but what ‘3 -the onatier . o 7 ; 


banks? T do wt t know who to nee on. ee 


» sez Ae taeaet tew Fonte : 
wit (S00 sez he, fan you Bie our papers 
eS ae 


ce ete as cies cayin’ at cea is net ae 7 


ry 


al of Aonest finance ving done in Wallestrocs Ae 
oe . 


274 A -Mobpertx Sic r en Por re sam 


is more shrewdly performed than was this ‘fair business 


transaction. 


‘Twas walking through Trafalgar-Square in London, 
one mnormmings sada travelled friend tous the other day, 
‘when Twas accosted by a man who was selling an en- 
eraved picture ot Ukrst Arai vig thi Trihat- Moved, 
He urged me oso piteously to purchase one, that [was 


tempted to do so. To owish DT had it mow to shew von, 


’ 


Our Sayrovr was dressed di as natty a switlow-tailed 
cout as you ever saw in a tailors report of the taslitons 4 
his pantaloons were strapped down over a peur ob exquistic 
litthe boots, amd he wore on his head a sriatl low bei] 
crowned hat, much in fashion about that time. [he 


apostles were dressed in the same fashion; only thet 1 


4 


wis evidently intended that the principal tigure should in 


this respect quite exceed ther. [thought of the value of 


1 . 


keeping inurtpas [looked at that scriptural picture, and 


. 


4 


the text which it was supposed to dlustrate > and, sacred 
aswas the subject, P could uot help cutfiwing obstreper- 


ously i the crowded square. 


We have vot encountered any thine beter than the 
foilownw vindieation of afriend ly a western eliter sis 


the eulogy pronounced upon Mr. Trostss Pa@eixs and 


es hees Bvnekr ents) fey 


INGTON sas ty es the chereg of 


oe that ies 
“young man in the prime of lite, « and we think 


Pr, 


eee marrow: a ne We eye ent, ‘Ue was Se pee 


ne ae ue “grandfather s barn. 


tof fact. 


Mr, Towas could have sivlen our 
several times, but he did n't do it? 


ee the ‘doin to the Paeifie. ee 4 
elevations would need to be overeome than, have | 
01 anted on the ae and. on nr iS: 


275 Oy DAS SPOR Se OP eo Leer os: 


the mark all ty accon plished, Let this prediction te 
marked.  ‘Uhis erent chain of ecommmunteation will be made 
with inks of iron. The treasures of the esathoin that wide 
revion, are net destined to be dost. The motntains of 
cou, the vast meadow-seas, the fields of salt, the mighty 
forests, with their trees two hundred and titty feet in 
height, the stores of magnesia, the ervstallized Tales of val- 
uable salts, these were not formed to be unemployed and 
wasted. The reader is now living, whe will make a rail- 
rod trip across this vast continert. The ernnile Vieditir 
tain will melt before the hand of enterprise: valleys win 
be raised, and the unwesrying fre-steed wil spout dls tet 
White breath, where silence bas rorgned sinee the imorntive 
hymn of vouny creation was pealed over aeuntain flood 
and field. The memmoth’s bone, amd the Iison’s Thorn, 
buried for centuries, and lone smee turned to stone, will be 
bared to the day by the laberers ef the Athutie and Pavitic 
Ratl-road Company: rocks which stand now as on the 
night when Noal’s deluge dirt dried, will heave: lenenth 
the action of *yilianeus saltpetre 7 nd wirere the prairh 
stretches away, ‘ke the round oeenn, eirdled with tle 
ky, with its wood-tring@ed streams, its flower-enamedtlend 


turf ated dis hers of startled brtfiiows, stidl sweep the 


long hissing tratuof cars, crowded with prissengers tor tly 
Paeitic sen-cborpre. The verv rents of chaes Hid old 


night will be invaded: while in phece of the swarm o! 


(Ke 
~ 
~. 


Scie aor Ee IN oie? “ 


wild beasts. or howl of wilder Indians, will be heard the 
lowing of herds, the Lleating of flocks; the plough wall 
cleave the sods of many a rich valley and fruitful hill, 
while * from miany a dark bosom shall go up the pure 


prever to the Great Sprprr,’ 


Som_nopy (Captain Doxowno, if we ast give 
names) mentious an old saw-miller in Maunme, whese pros 
fane ob-structare of the stream: which * carried? dis aill 
was itself carried away by a sudden freshet. “Phe mill 
Was old: the machinery in its decadence 3 the whole oss 
tablishiment * tottering to its fall? The owner was regard 
ine the *tlosd-wood’? of lis fortunes with asad and wist+ 
ful eve, when a friendly by-stauder consolingly said to 
him: + build anothers “t wont take vou three weeks to do 
it! * Ali? sidd the e7-decont miller, tooking at the old nas 
ked edities. whith diad no more * back-water? for a back 
eround, it ait worth a dan !?  Mentioning this the 
other eventie toa frend, he stad it reminded dim of a 
d—m which stopped the waters of a river beuseen the 
rootntians mone of onr northern States, and which, by a 
sudden * fresh? was swept away duripg the night. The 
owner ot the works thereon was a well-known geutheman 


of dionor aid intellect, but irritable, notwithstanding, and 


apt at times to give vent to his aroused emotions. The 


ors PUN ERA PAT RERS OT APR oie. 


neighbors, as usta, gathered around, awaiting the arrival 
of the owner, and speculating as te the manner and lan- 
ouitge tre would adopt, under the strong provocation to 
his *pheelinks! He soon after arrived. and probably sus- 
pecug, from movements and siens about linn, that the 
assembly owas waiting for oan outbreak. very coolly 
surveved the rushing river, aud the shiice-way it had 
opened, and turniug to the people with a bland) smile, le 
said tL think, neighbors, vou will all agree with me tht 


this river ovuelit to be damy——d !? 


Tuk vovager up the Saint Mary's river, alter reel 
ine a distance of some thirty miles from the Pltron. will 
heel to observe, crow hii the Teen Viedure s that rise fimn- 
phitheatrically from the stream, and at intervals of five or 
seven miles, sinele trees of Great height, standing like ver 
dant cones above the wenerit) level of the unbroken forest 
around them. The aborteinal tradition is. that these are 
the funeraltrees of Indian clietS who dave been burned 
beneath them. When a OTCAL ‘brave’ died i was the 
custom of the survivers to bend er fsway’ te the wound a 
tall vonne tres, and am the exvitv occupied tw the dis- 
pliced roots amd earth, te hay the body of the cdeml wer 


nor, and then release the tree. to spring back to ibs farms 


wositon. Waerrite, Wa nedn-several -vexre. sinks i Sue 


Five Ree SR EES OF we Pitt SEX Dhaai. 6) 279 


Kaiekerpockrnr, deseribed a similar observance in the in- 
stanee of a Sokokis chiet) on the banks of the Sebago 


luke, in the State of Maine: 


*Wirn grave, cold looks, all sternly mute, 
They break the damp turf at its foot, 


And bare its coiled and twisted root, 


“They leave the stubborn trunk aside, 
The firm: reots from the earth divide — 


The rent beneath views dirk and wide. 


‘And there the fallen chier is laid, 
Ih tusselled garb of skins arrayed, 


And girdled with his wampum-braid. 


‘The siiver cross he loved is pressed 
Beneath the heavy arms, which rest 


Upon his scarred and naked breast, 


“Tis done: the roots are backward sent, 
The beechen tree stands up unbent --- 


The Indian's fitting monument! 


‘When of that sleeper’s broken race 
Their green and pleasant dwelling-pliece 


Which knew them once. retains no trace: 


‘Oh! long may sunset’s light be shed 
As ow pon that beecl’s head — 


frevtt memorial of the dead! 


‘ 
ah 
“There shall lis fitting requiem be, 
In porthern winds. that coll and free 


Howl nightly in that funeral tree. 


vey Powe sitg-TeKius or run Taeeass 


To their wild wail the waves whieh break 
Forever round that lonely lake 


A slemm under-tone sledl make ! 


‘And who shall deem the spot uublessed 
Wiere Nature’s younger children rest. 
Lidied on their sorrowing mother’s breast 7? 

The western tradition, when related tous on board the 
Jitle © St. Clair? steamer, while she was strigeling up the 
rapid rushing current of the St. Manay’s, brought mstantly 
io mind the forewoing beautifal lines; and a sinvle peneil- 
word, Just seen on our litthe memoranda of some of the 
incidents of our last summer's memorable trip, has ain 


brought the subject out frome a back-shelt of Memory 


® eateheall 


bah Bia ae ee: 


TH INEVIMTATE— A WARSING S° AN ORNAMENT Too SGcInTY: “ARECHATE OF 
DN LOMAS CUR WINS, A OHTEDS Ast? GUODENTOMI SA NT OS 
TAS SOS? SCENE ORS IN NATURES PORES AAS ES Dy Gituekss 
LEAD GT SOLD IN VERSE?) THE “pig: Mel JANN PERCIEM Mow 
POBACCO >) THT INFIDER'S WORLD To COME’! “FOUR cro TH POUND? — 
PRIM TEE ONS NSE  ROTASICAT BRASS? WO RIO Goa kre 3 
A PPOLTICNE: QUANDARY S NN IMPROMPPL Serow=pAgd*, 


+ ALNING alone the Battery, on our return this 
oe from a adelihitul trip down the Lower Bay, in 
the § Orus” steamer, we beheld a young man whom we had 
known many years since, but whom we had not seen for 
many months, zig-zag-ing along the middle walk. with a 
triendiv supperter hold of each arm. Tle was * boozy 
le was ‘swipsed,’ he was ‘eut, he was ‘tight! he was 
‘cizaled? le was ‘building, he had ‘a stone in his leat 
lie wes ‘Intoxicated’ — he was drunk! Tle elanced si 
as with an unrecoenizing, lack-lustre eve, aud shamibied 
on — lis two fiends seemingly ashamed of their burthen : 
an olject of compassion to friends, of derision to foes; 
“iniged by strameers, and stared at by tools, Ot Une 
ve, the nervous, who ‘feel a daily longing for soure 
attiliviaul atl to raise their spirits in society to the ordi- 


nary pitch of all around them without it? could have sco: 


282 ‘Vas fae ea OWE aie 


that spectacle: could have seen that young man * strug 
choy with the billows that had gone over him?) Where 
were his pride, lis) selftrespect, lis love of the world’s 
esteem 2 Tt has always seemed inexplicable to us, that a 


man with the warb and feelings of ao @entleman, consclous 


of what belonged to the character, should go ou from day 
to day rivetting the chains of labit, until at leneth he 
finds himself voing down a precipice with open eves and 
aopassive will: seeing his destruction, without the power 
to stop it, vet feeling it all the way emanating from him 
self; bearing about the piteous spectacle at Tis own sei 
ruin, the *body of death, ont of which he cries with 
feebler and feebler outery to be delivered .* wniil at Test, 
forgettul of a// self-respect, he falls into that taste for low 
SOcTety Whiten 1S “Worse thea pressiliar to death, Whips, 
oy hanering, and Hialis falis te 1486 1 Bro ys, Wine, ee 


bo eas : 
a good faniiar erentmrs 


y } ] ] 
per nd MMOderatery Wael, Is 
but ‘every wordinate cup is unblessed, arel the meredsent 

: | 


is a devil:*? and he whe cannet avoid, or finds Winasely on 


any degree approaching, the sinerdinate enpl  stonhl 


Witee Tilee: one ser 


eschew it utterly: forat the last it * will 


Pent sie Stim like an adler {7 


A raresp of ours, not lone since in uelanad. reiates : 


characteristic anecdote of Cranres Lasme. which be lweaird 


GN NO) Re MeN RP ELC has Or: alee 283 


there, and which we think worth repeating ere. At a 


dinnertable one evening, a sea-faring guest was describing 
a terrifie naval envagement, of which he was a spectator, 
on bord a British man-of-war,  * While Dwas watching 
the etfects of the galling fire upon the masts and rmgwine 
sat he, ‘there came a ecannonu-ball, which took off both 
legs from na poor sailor who was in the shrouds. TTe fell 
toward the deck, but at that moment another eannon-ball 
whizzed over us, which, strange to say, took off both his 
arms, Which fell upon deck, while the poor fellow’s limb- 
less tronmk was camied overboard. * TLeavens 2? exchuned 
Loe Shida t yen sece his” Ne, repli tickasal 
Mtusciavsen : ‘he could n't swim, of course, and he sank 
before assistance could be rendered him.’ ‘Tt was a sad, 
sad doss 27 said: Lame, niusingly ¢ tit hie cold have been 
picked Ws Wilitl ame ornciuient to SOUTELY he mitrlit have 


] (4 
Lec DE 


Wir record here an aneedote of Tlon, Secretary 
Conwis, because it admirably illustrates the potency of 
| 


foams’ in political inectings, and the absence of * enfoosy- 


mens, vs bywox would term it. i seme partizan audi 


1 


tedrirsh. Wie, (Goa. in THe oeeunly part ef his potted! 
Gareor, tad been aderessiue sonpe ten or twelve thousand 
of Tis matter-of-tinet fellow citizetis, wt aplace crtled + New- 


neland Settlement,’ in the Western Reserve, lle never 


234 ARPepe pre or: Moms oir 


made a better speech, nor uttered one more tnpressively, 
In his life: but it was net interrupted during its delivery 
by a single encouraging word or westure: and wien it 
was finished, an awful pause ensued: until a tall thin 
Yankee. on the outskirts of the crowd, rose and said. ina 
thin drawhne voice: § My Chairman, | move that, in cou- 
sideration of the spirited and patriotic speech of MoeCirie 
wine, this meeting give lim three cheers !? Another 
awful panse followed ; when a ditthe man jumped up ou 
the other side of the crowd, and jerked outs * TP second chia 
motion!’ The chairman rose with ereat deliberation and 
Mtenity : ‘Gentlemen’ said he, * vou have heard the rese- 
lution t its moved and seconded, that in considerathon of 
the spirited and patriotic speech which we have heard 
from Mr. Cor-wixr, this meeting proceed te give hin 
three cheers!” An irregular * Moorah J* was returned, aid 
ihen all was silence. The ¢hatrman rose again: * The 
resolution, it should not be forgotten, sated die. * conten 
plated fhree cheers: you will therefore now proces] to 
dive a second cheers’ and a second * cheer’ such ms ib was, 
was eivent and a third followed, with the sine fortis 4 


aes: se AP a 
and the * dares and cefhustastee yneetine Hispersed. 


lv vou are a mother or a father, render, gpl dood 


nightly from rosy,dnnocent lips the praver af ebalihend 


a. Gn iether eer | oo Graken Nei Niaeaie 255 


mentioned in the following account of the death of a mis- 
sionary’s Little oirl, you will feel in your ‘heart of hearts’ 
the touching pathos which it embodies, Tt is an extract 
from av etter of Rev. Mr Lawrences, at Dindieul, om 
India, announcing the death of a lovely child, between 
three: and four years of ages *Deat dotisx went us 
eahinty to her last repose as the shutting up of a flower at 
twiheht. As her sight began to fail, though about four 
oclock in the afternoon, she said to me, * Good night, 
Jathers her usual words on going to sleep, and then weut 
on TO repeat 

‘Now [lay me down to sleep, 

I pray the Lorp my soul to kee —ee— p; 


A—a—men!? 


‘And so she left us to weep and rejoice, and now to 
lony almost for a retinion: not here; oh, no, not here! 
Sweet, blessed child! a more fitting prayer thou couldst 
not have offered, had thy lips been then, as now, the lips 
of anamgel? Thou wert imleed Iwing down to sleep. std 
sweet shall be thy rest, for the Lonp will keep thee: thon 
slit sien om Tis breast: and wake in Ths, arms She 
did Peal live Me Sav, 


oe TD estyobelsly Lie tain Uh ween, 


Dray the on my sonlte take 1 


but the Lorp took her in the midst of her evening prayer, 


286 AURA ERR POR OO ae 


when she mistook the darkness of denth Gathering over 
her for the shades of evenine, and bidding er trends 
‘Good mehty ealinly comnitted ler sweet spirit to hier 


heavenly Fariner’s eare.’ 


We were not a little aiused the other day. on situs 
down with a friend at a tforeign-kept? café, net a theu- 
said oiniles from Broadway, at finding on our plate the an- 
nexed bill of fare. Some wag had obtamed possession of 
one of its blank bill heads, and by way of a prrody ipen 
the frequent errors committed at that resturant in teats 
ferring French edibles to Enelish. as weil as by way ot 
satire Upon the *entertaiment ” sometimes to 
there, ind substituted the following tor the revular* earce 


of the day ‘ 


LIST OF VIOGry Ais 


ANT). THIS LYING. TNOOGRED aN) ‘ORD AT Tt Toa Shits 


i an 
Snire-Motg rj \ i ftarnip tne. - 6 
Su H Levee THOBUPRR:.. vo cb fabentade Pees , 
Fisives SWAG PHIOO. wins aap ewe nee ¢ ‘ 
eee AVON, 0 8 he Pi pov iawelws Kenta an aa edged marae zu 
eK POSCE BPOSE S— NBRG, Finis pe okKi kee b as okaee eee pees 3 


LTT CO ATs Sle Nea at tees IN] 


SUMAN EN RY coh Nes Nee ie ete ed Wetec Sh eles Nein 1 
ER Gurera Dirt When iota tcMlai.d he icone trite plo m Eee ae ae SOO EEG 2 6 
Keck MUN, Pru, SANE. hese Ciguait dustaver aie cate olstors ete Te soem 2 6 
TUL LPOM Gah THN, Pate, Someta MerR ice tte Meare Sire aaa ® Eula one BE 6 6 
SUMMNGE “OKs caves « siete om out hiv Ni aeaee Maem Jeg She ve i) 
SAGUCTONRIEIM YF Way® we sate etoies “aly 2: V Sete Ges yee onto teem Vee ere oe 10 
WHER Rety reli {IVER TS EET e bas seas shaoels mc-bv ape tas 2 ooo 12 
SltaNe Sith Non ADOT Rune cat's siery mei ad cepa eminen nO ona g 
PUMA ID WCU iat 85 Gate Wa ol sigh eva ace Shes ovaly aisMubte sad 1B ag PAR aRaeS 3 
SEGURO ves cn alta dh ats Bola keke reve ea ata Re ain UAT ONT eet ecd 2 
TRMNOME DRS, GLIMAISU PIU" sort oye ob ceed ae wlemenecies eve are : 6 
Ri OMANLUTR, CEG CC OONISOG, ) ceive iar ate f ba owes 4 oteeied iy 
Mes Crises T ue I ae CLUS 7 Hus si ye Shula rede pea eIoce ee Sm WARTS 2 6 
RO SOMITE NOU LOIN one. sit gf'og Seip Sav Foch din Ore Es Crap, tate era Bi 

Pie RITES OLUS MAUI ervey ik ta hte Giclee ate SBMA. see tia Sh he 2 0 
FAG Tine - soles Ay gk eecargns, gigTh Gta eSeejern om elas a Ay nts 2 
MAR ONMAII Ss os didats d td acta tut aimiete afateadn Moneta Gis 8 tote BAe a 6 
RAE RM eer Oe Rik Peeve ts eee et UN wisest oaaen Oe g 6 


Swushingers, 


CSF CVP RLS (SIM Meh ba Ste Peat en ni ool PAU ES aon aale pete pe, Sts eae 


Cty ee 


Rtas, (ale by Osenotba, Pate): 224d c. en: dap « 


Considering the juxtaposition of some ef the above 
articles ined the svle of spelling, we lave come to thie 
conclusion that Mr Yerrowpricsm must be travelling a 


cog. In this “wooden country.’ 


4 


We took a short ‘sally-out? this morning ‘ross Tots 
toward the Tludson, trem the Bloomingdale Road, with a 


protecting umbrella against the burning rays of the sun. 


> 


ons Pech Rennes ak Oiinesdee 
How hot and stifhit was! > No sound came trom the lind- 
seape, save where Invidads of 

*Prrrening grasshoppers, eontusdly shrill, 

Piped giddily along the glowing hil. 

Since we have come back. a cloud which was mo bie- 
ger than aaman’s hand when we reached home, las proved 
to be preguant with wind and rain, of which there has 
been a very * general delivery 2? amd now, how ditlerent 
is the air! We have been thinking of what Cantade 
says somewhere? ‘The expression of the fluctuations and 
Inoditieat ‘fecling in the heart of the heavens i ale 

Iteations of fecune mn the heart of the heavens is mat 
audible and visible and tangible om their faee ame bosom, 


© Heavens! what have Lnoet felt in a sumainer shower! 


The drv world all at once made dewy !° 


‘Do you believe in fore-runners 77 asked a nervous 
lid of old. Deacon. J ———. Yes Meanie replied the 
Dencon: * Love seen them !? * Bless mel? exclaimed the 
lady; Sdo tell? * Yes? continued the Deacon, fixing Tis 


eves with a solemn stare on a dark corner of the rooms? 


EJ: BOE OP Fite Fe s Marc | THOTEY oT rie??? Kliqietent the 
lady; ‘where!’ ‘There! there!” said the Wiese, game 


ine to Where his eyes were directed. * Patek, Miia 
nay be called a fore-ramner, for she mime om alieiomes 
Speaking of apparitions: that js rather a Turdole torgar 


ment urved avninst the theory of thelr extience by one 


AGE SUR RE dae BoM ee ay) M Nero Ss i> eG) 


of the characters in * The Grimsby Ghosts” ‘Ghosts be 
hanged! It’s too late in the day for “em, by a whole 
century? they Tre quite exploded : went out with the old 
witches: No. Sirs workinen nRty rise for ligher Wiles 3 
the stm ntaverise, and Iver may rise, und the sea inay 
rise tnd the rising ceoneration may rive, apd all to some 
good or bad purpose: but that the dead and buried 
shiotdd vise, only to iiuke one’s lair rise, is more than 1 
ca credit. Whit should they rise for! Sone say they 
comm with messages or errands to the living: but they 
eurt deliver “em for want of breath, and cant execute “em 
for the want of physical force, If you come up out of 
your grave tu serve a trend, how are you to help hin? 
And if it’s an enemy, what *s the use of appearing to him 
HWovowecant pitel inte him?? To wich an interlocutor 
replies, TANG « AA your sprrdl, of comrse 2 and the woes on 
to declure des belief in Ghosts; for he was * knowing to? a 
case of the hand, Where 2 fivnre-lead of a vessel called 
fhe Dette Teel appeared to a retired sca-captiin dn, Lone 
domon the very might that she found a watery grave olf 


Crane Fare |. 


200) CA Sa Raa Dass BG as ie = ee ae Weert 


Now when we henrd this afecting stanza suddenly sum, 


during asiight patie in the conversation, ete, of a pless- 
an 


t evemuy party at b—, we pricked up our eirs tor 
the ‘full and particular account? of the + dreadtul sced ue? 
so pathetically alluded) to. S——, with Detittine nasal 
twane, and * linked sweetness long drawn outy went out 


_— 


"One [saa 


Who lat 


decly nto Hartford came 


Annorr was bis nab me, 


Yowith his brother Jap ans, 


at ood nh went gs ib seers, 


At noord nt 


*To ont sobre 

Tie sae ee ‘ 

Near forty rods to ad’ 

The top was drv, a8 you shall see 
i . . 


Waa dry, as you shall see, 


‘We eat it of alltrob’m the statvimyp, 


pein’ airy, tires | 


ack & ebaok, 
Whies flew ad tir om his head, 
Ad nd Wd bibtrn. wet te wes rat dhend — 
Hib’ ur We Ws wet eae 
! ae 1 
| ' ! | 
’ phy 
, \ ' 
| PB vie 
\ toy 
ad i np 
i 
A tel & H 1 Fy Woe eat ' > 


__—— 


eae Rae ee 
eG 


ers hain inact ve iin eee - 
Pat hib'm to bed i'n a warb'm roob'm, 
a To sas in a yearb'in — me 


ene ad'nd xe ennre round, 
& cacenigh vowes by Ed'lder Browp'n : 


‘To Dbiegle with ~ dative sae 
*Gle with its dative clay 1” 


are some people? says a modern author who, 
eye for the weaknesses and absurdities of + ‘the 


:¥ 
ay ee are some Rapin. pe no reverence ex- 


a eee sneer, aie tote eae ead 
coy Pie gains to be vastly overrated ; whose 
ae Seuehl out to meet and welcome money > whose 
its awaken spontaneously toward the: interesting : : 
7 >of ity : Slee den we ut ce als Le ‘ 


QY2 Biw (ie a Ray ON” Whoa eee 


notovicher thaw themselves pin consequener of whieh. it ds 
dificult to sav whether they are most despised by those 
who are itbove or those who are below them in a pecue 
1 Prepress hile Soi, fat Pehotiss 
ness that they are mere Dowpeys makes them even more 
distasteful to themselves than to others. These are the 
‘poor rich jien? Whom Miss Sepewtes lias so well de- 
serity (ls 

A cAsuAL correspondent in Watertown, (XN. ¥..) sends 
us the following extract from oa temperunce-teeture Tn 
Bunesarp, the eecentric * revivalist’ lately delivered in 


that villave. We mentioned in a recent anemtot. We 


. 


manner in which the speaker ones obtained a atid of te 
baceo In churel: and it seems but fair that we should st 
forth Jiis subsequent trials in eschewthe the “wisd 


I 
was once! sidd he, * an inveterate lover of tobacco. and 1 


know how dittentt itis to brealy off the habit cf sits it 5 


still di ean bn Horne, | Induleed in the me of thewsriwl) tie 
rreat excess: [ loved it: bout knowine tat its eihesis yen 
teat. anc espech: , Hi Hecomhie Pa miinisk Sat thie SET 
[made ote almighty resolve to quit it. With fam 8 
lution | Wook: h TeIGengcous er which Woe ies 

inal wind-of.  Tchewed it and chewed 7% 

as a sweet miersel under my tougue, and fren an 
io the other, for three weeks. “Pesrs 7 . 


fisted) so @oorl before: ane £ alimest shed tears when I 
recollected that it was to be quv dast induleence. When 
iene SERPS. Wins a atties, To elie h aewaey s © lias 
Bercmanpy said I) + there goes your list — your omen of 


. 


quids 2° Well) for awhile it was very hard doing without 
it, and Lowas often sorely tempted to try it again. Old 
tubacco-chewers would pull out their rusty steel-boxes, 
vive them a scientific snap, and say, * Beremarp, have a 
chew ?*—and fora lone time, whenever L heard the click 
ef a tobreco-boxy, T involuntarily put inv hand in my 
trowse’s to vet hold of my pig-tail. In fact Daim afraid 1 
sometimes  blawdered dreadfully in my sermons, my 
thouvlts beg more perhaps upon tobacco than upon the 
Loup. But TP stuck to my resolution; and neither ‘ caven- 
dish“ nor ‘piestail’ las ever been between my teeth from 


that dav to this !? 


Tie article entitled ‘Infidelity ti New-York? magni- 
flex, We quintet hope and believe, what would otherwise in- 


ol tea ot daneerous moral enemy,’ Infidelitv, such as 


Gir catsinavient deserihes; ean @nin few adherents. 
Wie ts salah tated fur what is dishelieved, met preveit 
iaiy Syeat ettensinn of sich vaeue and qaicked asin 
tions. ~det-anv-of those who renounce Christianity write 


Ar te op ae 


: : eh oe 
v dows fio hoek sll the absnrdires which they be- 


204 i Os Ete ee ene 


heve instead of it, and they will tine that it requires more 


faith to rejeet Christianity than to embrace it: 


‘Te allour hopes and all onr fears 

Were prisoned in lite’s narrow bound ; 
If. travellers in this vale of tears, 

We saw te better world bevond : 


Oh what could cheek the rising sigh, 


Whatearthly thing could pleasure aive 7 


Oh who would venture then ta die — 


Ob who would venture then ta live 2? 


Tf men, savs Lacos, have been termed pilerims, an 
Tt eas] | | { 1 pil , and 
life a journey, then we may add, that the Christian pii- 
grimace far surpasses all others in the following iaportant 
particulars: in the goodness of the road, in the beauty of 
the prospects, in the excellenee of the company, and in 
le vast superiority of the accommodation provided for the 
t] t suy ty of tl lation ] led for tl 


Christian traveller who has finished his course. 


Tank about the ‘progress of the age? the * barbarisin 
of the past! and the dike? Where, in any comntry, save 
such as makes its own huws directly through the people, 
eould an occurrence like the following take puaans E ah 
legal friend of ours, passing recently through the charm- 
me villave of Canundaioua, was sirael with the Hp 


saace of an oblong frame building bw the veawl-shle, a [ttle 


wav ont oof the town, Gpen by oratines om all sides, and 


Sere Whos Ser ise awl. Oa. 205 


presenting the appearance of an ornamental corn-house, 
Te was attracted toward the spot by repeated ealls from 
the interior; and on reaching it, what was his surprise to 
find the place oceupied by four respectable citizens of the 
village? They were coutined in the town-pound, hitherto 
a sort of *sponging-house? for animals having no visible 
means of support, and indebted for past * keep? to the cor- 
poration grounds. They were sadly in want of food, and 
their beards had assumed an appearance not unlike that 
of the gentleman’s who staid so long at Jericho, bevond 
the termination of the ‘long stage’ from Dan to Beer- 
sheba. On inquiring the cause of their incarceration, our 
friend was informed that they were the Trustees of the 
Villawe ; that they had been confined there for more than 
a week, under a seetion of the ‘Laws of New-York of 
1820+ and that at the end of four days they were to be 
sold into bondage! One of the unhappy wretches here 
thrust through the grating a dirty, crumpled piece of pa- 
person which was written with a blunt pencil the ‘see- 
tion” by virtue of which they were held in duress. [It ran 
as follows, and may be found at page two hundred and 


; 


. ; . ‘ 
forty-four of the ‘State Lows : 

‘Wirrtinas itis sneevested by petitions from the inhabitaits of the villuge 
of Cannidaivua. that doatis exist pan the true construction af the third sees 
trom at the get hereoy amended, aid the ssh) petitions pray-tor a declaratory 
law, anid for certain amendinents in the said aet,. Mercere. 


‘Be re exacten, That the said Vrnstees, or the maior part of then, as often 


296 Sony ata wre ar Ia eaces 


ss Toy shall make, ordain and purbliah any Tiv-hovs SREY 
hestised (end mrprumaded, hee diter pease Sle the haa Mate te shila aye 
lie pend pay they fi ination of gory seh orlininee, 
to Wihit. Goal 1 


Some private citizens, aware of this section of the aet, 
ns it stands even now on the statute-book, and actonted 
by private pique seminst the trustees, had taken the law 
into their own hands, and put it in force agninst them, 
Tts ‘plain mening and intent? were not matters to be con- 
sidered, There stood the statute: they followed it ‘to the 
etter s’ and —here stood its victims! lt was a lead ease, 
to be sure: but then, on the other hand, such mistekes 
sometimes resilt in favor of the accused: as in au in- 
stanee reported in 3) Tank. Delaware Reports: where a 
man was indicted for stealing tone pair of heots. The 
theft was proved: but the thief was aetted, the evidence 
showing that the boots were nota pair. They were the 
 hetter-halves” of two pairs of * rivhts-nnd-lefts 27 and be- 
ing both triehts” the Judwe decided that it was ta/d melty 
wud the prisoner left. What will the *inonarchical press? 


say to these legal abuses of the model republic 


Me: OC ——, the dishnetished acriethiunat or Pei 
son, New-Jdersev. was remarking recently to a laidy-friend 
of tis: that fe conld wish, for one, that the Iie tere 


nee! in ferierttural chemisiry and botarry eonld be re- 


7 so ae hel meaning: nies be more 
ood by the great mass of farmers, and 
nd of botany. ee tee the ees 


a anecant the counsel for defendant, asked a 
ern Judge, * to say, that he is about to read 
es, as against the decision just pronounced 
af 2 §By no means !? responded the, coun 

ob owas merely going to show to your 
viet passage which T was about to read from 
which T hold in my hand, what an old tool 


try to give you very bricily, reader, a little 
was: told us pe other miei: in a sanctum, 


wits pursuine the law, (hed passrhus egies) aud whieh 
never overtook, 1 was sitting with my feet om a Time wath 
my hose, ny custom always da the atiermioon,? when at 
the opened door a vertiable client appeared,  Flis inimitable 
hiteh at the waist-band spoke at ones his occupation on 
the ‘bimy deep. * Do -yon ever write iethers ere “agmg 
his first qtlestiont. ‘ Sometimes’ sant (?* althosek Tain 
hot exnetly a man of letters? * Well. then? saul he ink 
ing round earefully to see that lis communication was 
contidential, *T want a first-rate one? * To whom and on 


what subject?’ Lasked. ‘To a gal im iittesy? sad te, 


‘She “int actime melt. and [ want to tell ler <o. She = 
1 F ee tee i 54 cee 
been and cone to a singine-school with apether char 


taind strong ?* Tadic my best. and put down in ony Goo 
vernnenular some emphatic expressions of tdienation, and 


some hard iovweks aeainst the interloper of the sineime> 


school, * Hold there l* says he, * that 1s father tos ie: 
sail on that tack! Now put her off a few pints on an 
gther tack, and sive her some soft ised. for [alow 
want to break off entirelyt only to seare hes phat she 
with mind her helm and steer straicht”’ ‘Sa ] asset it, aid 
put in some * seit sawder” and lovessick nonsense. 1 rend 


it te hn, Aa heé will do, said hes * but tell ee Aieer aad, 


it avill be as she bahaves ! Sol qualified the hanew aya 
i 
& Tihhie never. “That i hi. Saku, fie So “ae EURO Ie 


A *Perticarn Ova Dar y, 299 


you to put in some verses, to wind up the yarn’ ‘Such 
aoa’ > saad I oP Pipes 


‘My pen is poor, my ink is pale, 


My love for you shall never fail.’ 


*L wrote at his dictation until [eame to the word 
‘pale? ¢ That will never do? suid J, ‘tor this ink is most 
particularly black’— and it was ‘black as Erebus, or * the 
ace of spades? This was a poser, Ile scratched his head 
in mest amusing perplexity. §L must have the poetry, 
said he, fat any rate; and what if it aint exactly true? 
Will that hurt it?? ‘Not as poetry, said I, refining, + but 
as fact. It will be a false statement of a matter of tact, 
and the falsehood will be apparent on the face of the re- 
eord, and falsus iw uno, fulsus in omnibus, you know 
Jack! Tow can Bersey believe a word vou say, with 


4 


such a black falschood staring her in the faee 7? (LE was 
young, and fresh from Bracksrone, and talked learnedly.) 
‘What shall we do?’ eried Jack: ‘you must fix it some- 


how. ‘Tow will this answer, Jack ?7? [asked : 


*My pen is poor, may ink is black, 


My love for you shall never slack !? 


© }irxteratet > eschumedl Jack; and so it went, and so 
ended iy first cud ast attempt at poetry. L wish | led 


saa | ae | 
wits 2-GOlhe op thataewber 


300 AN Perprinrreu ~“Ordwt ain 


~“ 


Ton * BacmEtor’ “eas in a reverted? Shee een eae 
wour’ whs silent: ‘Richagn RLAvWwAGDR* “wae fie 
and “Old sien. was drinking in the exhilarating air of 
the sweet Spring morning —(* we four, and ne inore,” were 
bene wheeled to Huntington, Lone Island, over a beauti- 
ful rowd, through pleasant villages, ina fine veliicle, drawn 
by a pair of ‘fast bays’) —when TTaAvwanne, noting a 
Jone neck of land pushing out Inte the Sound, bare at low 
tide, and thickly besprinkled with crows, inquired, + Wiiat 
is that 7— Lone-Neck.™ Horse-neck, * CowsNaek > atthe 
Neck, 7" Rye Nook? op whieh ot the Lone shud + NER | 
3627 EN 


ither, f faney? answered “one at ast “tae 
only acdaumeless bar putting out into the Sound: Tut I 
should think * Crow-ber? would be a good desienation 


tor ie 


BS ig bs as Sakae ce IR a it 


ARE ENE WWASHSTUG St, AAT SROA LYRE 8 PORN AL RENERA TIE 
TOPs STs SHE, Ashi. MASON SSP AIST ENVISION ATS: BT SS 
WMEPARS IMA ION A TVinerekeset stanzas —*ssowe? 
SPUNNY MUN OD A HOPEPUL SOND ANECDOTE: OF Waitt FrELDD THE —— GATS 
TUN Iie Vain orsn BOYS A PARODY S OTLAPOD Ss HPIETORARY 
Pittwhe, ~\ou ert? Ol ALVAS SOC A Pie. ISS Pe. 


PPVIG horror of + Washing Day? lave composed a time- 


Hedlowed theme for rumblers, and have eheited the 


iy 
seft numbers of the poets. But according to an amusing 
traveller, whose Letters’ we have recently read, they re- 
move far off the annoyance ip some parts of the old world. 
At Ouchy, near Lausanne, he writes: *[T saw to-day for 
the first time in my life a converse of the washing-tub 
theorem. In the common case, the, washine-tub coutains 
water and the linen, but not the washer-woman, who is at 
some point without the tub: in this case the tub contained 
the washer-woman, but neither water nor tinen. The 
women were standing in tubs in the lake, and were wash- 
ing clothes which were on the outside ef the tub in the 
witer, ‘The mode they have of subsequently smacking 
1 Bee 


the tic et she aAkars Sa Mest wnchartahle andewnrs 


302 A Rare Bi oar ih yee 


christian preceeding, Far from hiding the defects of ani 
old shirt, it puts them humediately in a very striking 


lieht, and makes the most of all its little weaknesses,’ 


— 
S 


Tui ensuing lines are quite in the style of Trac: 
ERAY'S * PEG of Limavady :? vet they are pertectly orig 
nal, and do not even verve upon parody, ‘The reader wall 
observe how completely the measure chimes with railroad 
motion: 


ld 


SINGING throngh the forests, Gentlemen qnite ol 
Rattling over ridges, Ashing for the mows: 

SLOo & tinder are ~ (y ! 1 1) eae 
Rumbing over bridees } \ ies 

Whizzine throuch t YH ! ~ Crentienia r 


Buzzing ovt Vile Sober as 4 Sieur s 


tess mie!—- this is pleasam, ler in srt 
yer rail! itly iy liqner: 
Men of different ‘stations’ Stranger on the rigia 
In the eye of Fame, Looking very sumiuy. 
Here wre very quickhy Obviously reading 
Coming to the saves! Something rather funy ¢ 
VWieh mud Low Ey pe ople. Now the smiles are thieker: 
Hirds of every feather, Wendor what they mean ? 
On a cornmon level Baith | be “sgotihe Kiwis 
Trav g toreth 
Ge men ins s 


ert ’ 
I Hn 
! Ce t pears 
Li a 
wT 
£ uu 


Aen eS Orie ota Re Ton 305 


Market-woman earefal Wonran with her baby 
Of the precious casket, k Sitting vis-i-vis 
ESTOS PSteScare (eres! Baby keeps aesqualling, 
Vizhily holds her baskets Woman looks at me: 
Feeling that a smash,’ Asks about the distance, 
Tt it came, would surely Says it ‘s tiresome talking, 
Send her eges to pot Noises of the cars 
TRather prematurely? Are so very shocking! 
Ancient maiden lady Singing through the forests, 
Anxiously remarks, | atuine over rid 
That there must be peril } Shooting under avelies, 
“Mong so many sparks: | Rumbling over bridges: 
Logi locking fellow, | Whizzing through the mountains, 


Turning to the stranger, Buzzing over the vale — 


Suys it’s his opinion Biess me! — this is pleasant, 


Se is out of danger. : Riding ona rail! 


Tue well-known anecdote of ‘Jarvis and the melan- 
choly Frenchman’ with the segar-box had its parallel here 
a shot time since. A gentleman of Dituminous com- 
plexion, dressed all in sables, with black coat, black vest, 
black gloves, black pantaloons, and black hat, with a very 
long black streamer depending theretrom, was walking 
alone through Broadway ‘with solemn step and slow, 
bearing a very small baby’s coflin under his right arm. A 
brother *darky? coming trom the opposite direction, with 
a recognitive erin, exposing arow of teeth like the keys of 
a jaune, hailed Tim: * Well, Joe! where is you bound 


iis Terie. Wad we hoax 4? “Saas 2° sacred Die pheiers 


30-4 Pre “are 3’ - S eeen eeae Ss 


of the arm. * Go “way }—do nt you see dat [is a@ fu 


reral 2? 


, 


‘Wao hath redness) of eyes?” Vhis Interrowalive 
‘portion of divine scripture’? is forcibly illustrated by an 
anecdote, related with most effective dryness by a friend 
of ours, An elderly gentleman, accustomed to ‘indulye,’ 
entered the bar-room of an dan ja the pleasant city of 
a AN Tfidson, where set a Srave Piiend toasting 
his toes by the fire. Lifting a pair of green spectacles 
upon his forehead, rubbing his inflamed eves, and calling 
tor a hot brandy-toddy, le seated ditmself Dy the erate; 
and as he did so. le remarked to Unele Dreovpistam thet 
‘his eves were getting weaker and werker, and that even 
specuitcles did wt seem to doVem any good? * Tl tell 
thee, friend, rejoined the Quaker, * what T think. DP think 
if thee was to wear thy spectacles aver thy mouth tor a tew 
mouths, thy eves would get sound aenin!? The “ean 
plaineent’ did not even return thanks for this medical 
counsel, but sipped his toddy in silence, and soon atter leit 


the room, * uttering never a word, 


Ty is cal fadet the celal rater cl ee AD TS he Aerts Nas 
SOON, that sittn “4 : a shes r13-| nyt table On OA Tan a) 


just as the passengers were * falling to’ in ihe eustounity 


NG Jae a kad an Gh gl ek ee gm Dae 000 


manner, he suddenly ripped vehemently upon the board 
with the end of fis knife, and exclaimed: * Captain? is 
this boat out of the jurisdiction of Gop Atmiciuy 2 Tf not, 
Jet us at Jenst thank Pit for his continued goodness 5? and 
he proceeded to pronounce * grace? amidst the most reverent 
stillness, It as to be hoped, however, that lis * grace? was 
not like the few set words handed down from father to 
son, mumbled without emotion, and despatched with in- 
decent linste, which one sometimes hears repeated over 
eountry repasts. * Bless this portion of food wow in readi- 
ness for us; give it tousin thy love; Jet us eat and drink 
in thy fear—tor Crmist’s: sake —— Loreszo, take your 
fingers out of thet plate J? was a eraee onee said in our 
hearing, but evidently net in that of the spoilt hoy, + grew- 
ine and always hunery,” who could not wait to be served. 
We should preter to such insensible Hippaney the practice 
of an old divine in New-Eneland, who in asking a bless- 
Ing upon lis meals, was wont to name each separate dish. 
Sitting down one day toadinner, whieh consisted partly of 
Clams. beruestenk. ete. die was forced in a mensure to fore- 
@o Tis ustal custom of firnishine ns * bill of particulars’ 
‘Bless to our use, said dies these treasures did) in the 
same y tless this ——" But the bear's-ment puazled tim, 
and die concluded with: ‘Oh! Lorn, thow only huomest 


arheat i / is pS ; 


G2 
[= 
Cc 


AM TPRT AR es DIK Raat a 


Our readers will remember the order viven bw the 
Chinese Emperor to a corps of Mandarins, who were to 
ieieidtiinrs’ Gon Td bute “oases a 
eNterinbate tine mbar. dsnebshers i tlie hartaa et 
Canton, by going down to the bank of the river im tle 
it, and then and there ‘dive strain 


Y 
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lit ou bosacd those 


it ships, and put every soul of them to death? 
Subsequently, liowever, the red-bristlhng foreigners mint 


aged to land, when, as it since turns ont. ib becatme teees 


sary to adopt more SANOUINALY mensnres, ‘The hanperer 
called up one of his * great generals’ and give fim Tas 
orders: * You must dress your soldiers) said he. * ir a werg 
frivhifal manner, painting their faces with the mest horrid 


, 
‘dragons and. monsters om your bee 
1 1 . 
ners} vou Toust then rush upon the 
: 1 na Nae St ‘] ee ee 
ful outeries, and ternfv them so ihat they wil fall dead 
y 7 } 


flat oon their faces: and when they are once downl san] 


the Tniperial potentate, ‘their breeches tre so tiipht hit 


= / 
the A ecilhe wee rer et upp CIEPCL ETL y 


; , : ; ages 
‘Dress always and aef to please your paraner tor life, 

fs wou were fain to do before the nuplini-kuot Wis ede 
his 18 an Obl maxim, amd here js‘ a tonitienieter Win 


it. A newly-married lady is suddenly surprised law a visa 


trom a newly-married man, when she straightway bens 


it was, [was almost asleep for as there wats : 
t liome but my wife, [ did not know what to do 


eid per il ine “as meridian, “The show wats a 
ity and certain memories came mto my heart 
that plucked roses, flushed with eee and. 
dew, | in ‘the days that are no more!? The 
el the eaves of the Tush had vanished ; yes air ee ei 
een pul floated AW moe snl she ay fled Pe Lee 


: Faun etiae the rose-bush, Pr SW i 
eon y Ol Beeog mate ae os Bel ea 


S08 SP te a a IE ae 


Cover the well-Known pathway, 
Oh, damp. December sow! 
Her step ne loner Ttigers there, 


When stars bevin te glow. 


Melt in the rapid river, 
Oh, cold and cheerless snow! 
She sees no more its sudden waye, 


Nor hears its foaming tlow. 


Chill every song-bird’s musie, 
Oh. silent, sullen snow ! 

J cannot hear lier loving Voive, 
‘That lulled me long aga, 


Meepoom the Karth’s brow) bosom, 


Ohl, weary, winter snow ! 


Its fraceant Howers., and blithesome birds 


Showd with its loved one go! 


Tris onr private opinion that a merely * funny man? is 
one of the biggest bores in all the land of Boredom. Wit 


and Dimer united to general discernment. plat commen 
sense, above of the beautiful, and warm. sensibility, dies. 
eonatitube the trne rman of wit? dot suet was aise 


Swan ound Tloon, and of such, preénunently, im these 


‘latter duva’ ia Drekcews, 


\ furs eee Sox 309 


‘Mirk For Bapesy an elaboratcly-concocted satire 
Upen a-certain class of ‘learned and pious hand-books tor 
urehins of both sexes! is not without humor, and ridicules 
What indeed im some. respects deserves animadversion, 
We atfect as Tittle as our correspondent what las been 
rizhtly termed ‘a clumsy fumbling tor the half-tormed in- 
tellect. a merciless hunting down of the tender and un- 
h the means of * instructive’ little 


tHleded theught, throu 


aw 


books, wherein an insipid tale goes teebly wriggling 
through au unmmerciful load of moral. religious, and scien- 


tifie preaching ; or an apparently simple dinlogue invelyes 


sa) 


subjects of the highest difliculty, which are chattered over 


wjes, or delivered to them i 


) 


between two juvenile prod 
monthtus, curtoushy adapted to their powers of swallow- 
ing. Lhe inivor manners and duties, says our corre- 
spondent, tare quite overlooked by misvuided parents 
wow-tdayvs 37 and this he illustrates by an anecdote : 
‘Tuosas, my son’ said a father toa dad in inv hearing, 
the other day, Swon't you show the centlemman your Jast 
eotipesition 27 * TP do wt want tos said le, + Leeesh vou 
would? respotded the father. *Toawortl* was the reply : 


4 


AD tie doom slalsetipen iP hes Ao sickly. dedt-upproy ii 
an prusserd over the free of the father, as tre said. in ex. 
muatinate wt fisson's brits rie 2) At cher fe enn 


Vast eye rally e ut the Tel 1S hi i gat sch cd coli, he is 


aimost @ pool! Wine parent t hiappes bev! 


310 AS EOD EEE OF Wal Pb tape 


Terk is in these ditanane and benevolent days an 
increasing svinpathy in the publie aiiud for a aan con 
denned to *iniarch sorrow tally up to the gallows, there to 
he noosed up, vibrate his hour, and await) the dissectine- 
knife of the surseon, whe fits his bones jute a skeleton 
for medical purposes. * There never was a puble hanes 
Ties says a late advocate of the abolition of capital pumisth- 
ment, * that was productive of any thing but evil? There 
is am anecdote recorded of Woireerenp, Jrowever, which 
seetus to refute this position. in at least one instance, “This 
eloquent divine, while at Edinburel. attended a pubis 
execution. Tis appearauce mpon the eround drew the 
eves of all around lim. and raised a variety of opinions as 
to the motives whieh led Tim te jem in the crowd. The 
next day. beng Sunday. he preached to a large body of 
men, wornen and children, in a field mear the city. Tn 
the course of Ins sermon, be adverfed to the exeentien 
Which had taken place the preceding day. * 1 kiows said 
he, * that miaiy of you will find af dificult to reconeiie mY 
appearanee vesterday with my character, Many of vou 
will sav. that my moments would have been better em 
plowed 1 pray ine With the wnliwopy man. than dn attend- 
ine him to the fatal tree, and that perliups CUPTOSIEY Was 
the only cause that converted me inte a spectator ou thea 


gecusion t but those who aseribe that uneharitable motive 


Ae otitciacen (sake ee Cane ec Sal 


to me are under a inistake. LD witnessed the conduct of 
dlinost every one present ou that occasion, and Twas 
livhly pleased with it, It has aiven me a very favorable 
Hpression of the Scottish nation. Your svnipatliay was 
visible ou your countenances, aud reflected the grentest 
honor on your hearts particularly when the moment ar 
rived in which vour unhappy tellow-ereature was to clos 
lis eves on ‘this world for ever, vou all, as if moved by 
one dinpulse, turned vour heads aside and wept. Those 
teas were precious, and will be held) in remembrance. 
How different was it when the Saviour of mankind was 
extended on the cross) The Jews, instead of svinpathizine 
mn his sorrows, triumphed ino them. They reviled him 
with bitter expressions, with words even more bitter than 
the gall and winegar which they gave lim to drink. Net 
one of them all that witnessed lis pains, turned the head 
aside even in the last pane. Yes, there was ones that 


glorious luminary, (pointing to the sun.) veiled Ins bright 


y 
face and sailed on in tenfold night? Zhes is clocience | 
Would that we could have seen the bemuing features, the 
“inelting eve, turned toward heaven, which indelibly in- 


pressed these words Upou the heart of every jrearer ! 


Eviuaiy body dias heard or seen + The Mestletoe- Bough? 


that Hadelittian story in sone, of a bride who lind hid her- 


aie TRE OV Ok Be Chie. base 


self in-an old oak chest (which telosed with at sprit) on 


the nivht of her marriage, and who was seen te mere, 


i 


until vears had rolled by, when her skeletons in its bridal 


eer, Was aecidentally discovered im the Uvinw tomb which 


sie had sought in merriment. ‘There ts a capital parody 

en this very Germano tale, entitled + The Vork- Ouse Boa, 
ee ; ve ; 

Which is set to the same music, and sume with a partien- 


larly luenbrious and *dvine fall’ in the eherus. Tt would 


Serente a soul under the ribs ot Dk ath? to hem it *exe- 
emfed? an the voiee and with the instrumentation of a 
certain friend of * Nd Kwien’s? who in rendering it pr- 
serves the original pathos and irresistible eockies tsi bo 
acharm. The last verse brought tears toe onr eves: 


THE -VY¥OER-OUsSR Boys 


es Bers sro ie Por ma ees, 


. By the eae Ouse ails 
as - on the workoust boy! 


"To gxin his nl the lad did stoop, 
Ani dreadful to tell. he vas biiled into comp! 


Olt the york-‘ouse boy! 
: , Oh! the vork~ouse boy! 


DWORTIE Was BS ann man, & ae oy 


J pe and si ice in all ae relations of lifes 


Jit ANECDOTE oF A DVaAR 8 tie 


rendered dificult. he thus reterred to the truth of is nts 
phieey, in the opening Or x poetical epistle Ly the wert 


mul atter his arrival at home: 


*T am glad. as it is, that so soon [ departed 
To this goodly city at omec to return 5 
For inmedistely after, old Boras bad started 
‘To seatter the snows from his locks and his urn: 
It Lcd staid thi Monday, or come home on Sunday, 
I should have had one lay of plofsnre, “tis trues 
rt 


But the steam-hont ceased running, and theretore *ennping 


] think “t was, my shunning to tarry with you.’ 
This ineasure, poor * OLLAPOD” was wont to say. could be 
‘run off the reel? faster than any other with wliuel: le was 


nequadnted, 


Thine is a pleasant anecdote related of Mr. Aryan 
Srewarn, of Central New-York. which stnkes we as 
worthy of preservation, [le was dining one day alone id 


our fashionable lheteis: and alter selecting froty 4 Dida 


ch ome. ae 


fire du French a piece of roast beet he despatel 
ie sparse corps of servants to procure i. [The watted tee 
some tine, but the servant ‘came not buck? At level, 
observing hin assisting At An Opposite table, he beckoned 
to him, and having caught his eve, exclaimed, in a some 
rous voiee, + Young mon, J am hungry!’ * AX. as. Si 
replied the waiter, and departed a second time Sor fis 


late ot beef After some tine lad elapsed, these vere 


NE SOSS Chie es oun) Garp ee Looe te uO Dees FA) 


placed b tore the hungry gentleman, who turned a solemn 
fee to the servant, and asked, ‘Are you the boy who took 
max phi tor this beaf {" .° Yessir, PT be” said. theavraiter, 
“Not? exclaimed Mn Srewarr: ‘why, how you have 


grown f? 


Wao can withhold his assent to the justice of this es- 
nate of the deserts of that class of persons (happily 
sunidi) who, having acquired some notoriety as * couversa- 
Linhists,” are continually striving to be striking or pro- 


sin ten words which require only 


found: who say thin 


two; and who fancy all the while that they are making a 


erent impression 7 ‘Tt is easy to tall of carniverous animals 
and teasts of prey: but does such a man, who lays waste 
wu Whole party of civilized beings by prosing, refleet upon 
the: toy he spoils and the miserv he creates, 1 the course 
ot dite Tihs {—and that any one who listens to him through 
pociteness, would preter ear-ache or toothache to Tas cone 
versation 2 Does de consider the extreme wnessitiess 
Which ensttes, When the company have discovered that he 
isa Fores at the sme time that it is impossible to convey, 
Iyowerds op meamer, the most distsut suspicion of the dis- 
eovery 2 Nned then whe pumishes this Tore? What sus 
Sens ane, whit asses for bine? War Gill a “fend 
corti tue WY lity: 


eone their vernal and antumnal rounds, the sheen-stealer 


meas lay? oWelvtne thie fates treme 


316 AP boi? ise wes OP ato 


disappears: the swindler gets ready for the Bay; the solid 
parts of the murderer are preserved ino anatomical collec 
tions. But after twenty vears of crime, the bore is per 
haps discovered in the same douse; eating the ssme Soup 
unpunished, untricd, undissected.”  TTiave you hat dusoEns 
tered, reader, in the course of what Mrs, Geaxte would term 
your ‘yalyian’s progess through thas mortial wale,” an ov- 


easional bore of this stamps a man whose disquisitiens 


(touching mainly perlaps jis own literary opinions and 


vat dertuees, poppy 


writings, published or unpublished.) | 


syrup. mandragvera, hop-pillows, and the whole ibe at 


Merv, 


' 
! 


narcotics, wil to nething 2 Tt vou have not. ven sare 


We know who leas. 


yO ee DE Te ae 


GT ON NG ON BONED. WAT BERLIOS 2 uN, GEGGSeP HRS UNE? Go AN 
WeT Ve, 5 INGUISTITVE TROP: AY ERIDABLE. VANE STUIY 3 


VIemsStttUbES tN “GurrTinG To YoukK"t *2N THE NAME OF TITE? OCEAN — 
' 


Palak SEL PEPRNOEN. JATLQS CRITI < A “SR ANC TSISRY pIrro 

Ser BEN LEO POI CSE 2 TARY MEP OLEAN STONEACARIE 3. PYRE 

HES GTO) VPN cee 

om after you pass from Broadway into Wallstreet, 
eJ citizen reader, vou will perceive on your left a wide 
open space, Covered with rabbish and dotted with laborers. 
Turn aside for a moment and survey the scene. It is a 
; ae Oe PA srk dies arene oF NaS Mesa ty 
space ot ground occupied by two sacred edilices, ti sue- 
cession, the latest of which has just been taken down, 
The diinerous arches which you see around, some almost 
demolished, and others slowly yielding to the erow-bar 
and pick-axe, were the vaults of the dead. Advance a 
fiw vards and examine them more attentively. The worlk- 
men are removing all that remains of the forms that once 
tenanted them : sometimes so little as scareely to be per- 
eeptible ss a svade-fill or so of dust, a shapeless Tump of 
porons bone, aint perhaps a dank piece of worai-eaten 


mahogany, beins all that is left. In the two or three 


smmall pine boxes witch vou see ta the centre of the Sp Tethe 
are deposited. in a promiscuous heap, the few bones, laree 
sue small, which were found commingled together in the 
vaults: and where the lines of craves ran on eaeh side of 
the church, are also now and then found similar + trophies 
of the dead and vone” Pause at this spot, reader—ias 
by an eddy that slowly revolves in the curve of some 
roshing stream —— pause for a inoment, and ere you hasten 
on tomingle with ‘multitudes commercing * in the crewd- 
ed mart of traflie, solemnly meditate, and commune with 
yourself: What am L? and whither am PT tending? Men 
with spirits as buovant and hopes as bright as amy own; 
Who once met diily in the busy thoroughtiwes of the me- 
tropolis 3 who mingled with each other in fraternal inter 
course > Who sat side by side in the same house of prayer: 


. 


Where are they now?) ‘Shrunk to this ditthe measure!” 


their very remains commingled together in the dust, and 


dwindled into indistinetuess and inexteteable contision : 


‘Anp is it thus! —¢s human love 


So very light and frail a thing! 


And must life's brichtest visions move 


Por ever on Time's restess wing ? 


Even so! When the rattling 


earth ts cast upou our 


Ep oac cay eis Pee Sto 


eoffiu, it sends up a hollow sound, which after a few fiint 
echoes, dies and is buried in oblivious silence. That tleet- 
Ing noise is our posthumous renown, §The earth itself? 
says the great Minros, ‘is a point, not only in respect of 
the heavens above us, but of that heavenly and celestial 
prt within us. The mass of flesh that circumscribes me, 
limits not my mind. That surface that tells the heavens 
they have an end, cannot persuade me Z have any. There 
is a divinity within us: something that was before the ele- 
ments, wid owes no homege unto the sun? Bear this well 
in iind, therefore, that ‘affections well-placed and duti- 
fully cherished ; friendsInps happily formed and faithfully 
maintuned ; knowledge acquired with wortliy intent, and 
intellectual powers that have been diligently improved us 
the talents which the great Author of Mind has eommit- 
ted to or keeping; will accompany us into another state 
of existence, as surely as the soul in that state retains its 
identity and its consciousness.” No one, sitys SOLoNn, can 
truly be ealed happy, until his lite has terminated tm 
happy death; and surely his death will be the happiest, 
who in his day and generation has done the most yood to 
Its fellow men, Seek ont, then, those unhappy wretches 
who are shunned because penmiless and forlorn y oppressed 
sud wronged, because weak and powerless ; Who endire 
poverty without pity, age without reverence, want without 


suecor, and pain without svmpathy : seek them ont, end 


3°20 fom Cae Piao voor 


. oh : See . 
relieve them. Then wall the * blessing ‘of Tim that was 
ready to perish? cheer your last hour, Phen there will be 
joy in the thoneht that 

our living bodies (hough they seem 
To others more, er more in our esteem) 
Are bit the shadow of that real Being, 
Which doth extend beyond the tleshly sccing, 


And cannot be discerned until we rise 


. 


Immortal objeets for immortal eves. 


Tr any man among us lacks pride in his eouutry. or 
in the Ingenious handicraft of his tellow-citizens, we coun 
“gel him te step into the Furr of the Aimerican SLuatiticte, 
at Nipro’s Garden. Js there any uation under heaven, 
with the experience that our’s has had, that can exeel us 
in the useful arts? Tlow vain-glorious soever the assump- 
tion may seem, we think net. There are some inventions 
on exhibition at the Fair which will provoke a smile from 
the observant visitor: lutowe shall not mune them, lest 
our motives shonld he misinterpreted. “The truth is, ay 
have had an invention ‘thrown out? by the managers : 
and any vedlverse remarks of ours wpon the * improvements” 
of other exhibitors, worled he placed to the aecount of pie 
vate pique. Our appeal lies to the public. The * Waza 


/ 


licohion. on Chicken-THatchine Marche, strureston| fos 


an inproved plan for supplying the increased demi for 


NY, Se lege Oeelen Ta ee Oink WIND Re Bea! 


egos, created by that unique steam-hen. It was called 
‘The Selfuctiug Back-Aetion Ligg-Persuader, and was 
upon the following principle: A nest, in the usual 
form, was made of bent pieces of whale-bone, supported 
at their upper ends by a circular hoop, and. terimina- 
ting in very thin points at the bottom of the nest. Be- 
low the mest was suspended a circular thread-netting. 
The modus operand: of the invention was as follows: 
The veritable nest being concealed by the usual matériel, 
the hen mounts In good faith, settles down, and deposits 
her ego, tin the full glow of conscious security’ The 
pliant centre of the nest feels the weight of the new bur- 
then, viells gently to the pressure, and the egg is safely 
deposited iu the netting below. The hen finding after all 


— 


her labor ‘a product of v7d? in the nest, renews her mater- 


ual endeavors; nor does she cease, until the lower basket 


of net-work is filled with eves, and there remains ove in 
the veritable nest. Such, fellow-citizens, is the useful in- 
vention which was ‘thrown out? by the Accepting Com- 


mittee of the American Institute! 


yan vou never meet, reader, on board a steau-bont, 
Ina rall-road ear, or in society, with one of those perkine, 
Lawisitive persons, who try tu pick the bratus of every 
manu who will submit to the process? When pret you 


= dhe 
ay 


(eu 


AN. AeCOR: CORR ER Bae 


el 


Os 


encounter such qin one, adopt the tinterrupting game, as 
played by a traveller upon an inquisitive inn-keeper: 
‘Good qmorning, Sir; low de vou dot 1 suppose vou 
are going to—— Here Bosxteace paused, expecting 
the name of the plice to be supplied 3 but) the traveller 
answered + * You are quite right, Siry T wenerally co there 
at this season’ § Ah? ahem? do you? And ne doubt 


Nie ere OSE al 


you are now come trom —— Tee 
live there? *Oht abl do yout Well youn tate asaia 
miliary to me; Dhave met you somewlere, [sam quite-——" 
‘Very likely Siry T?ve been there often, Good morning, 
Sir’ * Good morning’ * Not rmueh information elicited 
from that withess !7 as Mevone savs in the play. Wan 
corr, that very clever and most versatile of aetors, tells us 
that he was once shit up in an apartment of a New-Huw- 
land country dun, with aS einoowine? female Inquisitor, 
who had just alighted from a stage-coach. While her 
matte attendant had woue to wet her * some Vr sleuts. te 
wis lettin the room with her Bee engaged with a 
book he did not notice her particularly. Presently she 
observed, looking at a daub of portrait: hanging aginst 
the wall. Do yoeu knedw whuse pieter that is 2 Tt looks 
hike a fine moral ereetur’ * Tam afraid: vor mistake the 
character of the ortgimal, replied Mr Wancorr: ‘Tam 
Informed that le owas a lodver, who was leaving elandes 


Guely, without paying his board, and that dis portrait was 


wo 
w 
ey) 


Ae ONE RSIME Ne Go Ne es ns ase) Tea. 


detained as security in part for lis dues” * Yoéu do n’t say 
so }’—-and the lady passed on to another rude painting, 
and the only other one in the apartment. Surveying it a 
moment, she again inquired: *Whuse is ¢hat paintin’? 
Tie Sat pleasi’ pleter, but he wears ne hair euvus. * That. 
said the player, tis a copy of our Saviove” ‘Now du 
tell —1 want to know! Well) she eontinued, ‘it does 
look suwthie like him, do wt it7?  Neflection as to the 
implied famiharny with the original face, which enabled 
the *inquisitor’ to detect ata glance a general resemblance, 
was interrupted by the appearance of the ‘‘fresh’ents, in 
shape of *nut-cakes and cider;’ and presently, says our 
informant, ‘the pair went on their way, and IT saw them 


no more, 


‘A rew days since a raw-looking genius, carrying a 
cheap hai-trutdk, made lis appearance on board a sloop 
which plies between New-York and a small port on the 
Connecticut coast, and inqired for the captain. [le hailed 
from Coos county, New-Tkumpshire, and presented in iis 
appearance a perfect specimen of a tresh-caught Yankee. 
Vile wore a mixed coat of homemade fabric, with short 
square shirts, such as are usually called ‘bob-tail? lead 
buttons, and sleeves about six inches too short at the 
wrists. Tis pantaloons were striped, and his legs were 


thrust a long way through them, leaving the interval be- 


324 'GEPrTIng “rp Y¥ ob 


tween the legs of the trowsers and his heavy laced hoots 
arraved in a substantial pair of pepper-tne-sdt via stock- 
ines, On oa head, adorned with a luxuriant srowth of 
course sandy haar, tallowed to a nicety, was perched a tat 
much worn but in an excellent stite of preservauion, with 
anarrow brim and huyve bell-crown, serving the purpose 
of a travelling valise in addition to the other uses of that 
article of wearing apparel. An immense collar, vigtd with 
starch and erect to the ears, supported by a colon cravat 
of variegated yellow and black, completed the adormument 
of his outer man. Tie seemed about twenty-five veurs of 


age; was a lean, eadaverous-looking individual, standinw 


some six feet when erect, but having a stoop of the 
shoulders which reduced Jim to about five-fect-nine. A 
small pinched-up mouth, perked nose, high cheek-bones, 
sunken cheeks, prominens « nit, and a yxdrof brieht twink- 
ling eyes, of an indescribable color, gave an air of extreme 
*euteness” to lus physiognonyy. 

This was obviously Jas first visit to the salt water: 
but as he stood upon the sloop’s deck whistling Yankee- 
doodle. his avms thrust into his pockets up to the elbows, 
one Jeg thrown forward, lis eves cast upward scanning 
the Meging with the air of a connoisseur, he seemed as 
much at home as thoueh he was a verituble *oceean-clild? 
In reply to a question as to his business, he drawled 


oul: 


*urria.e wo Yorn: 


G 
Ge 


‘Capting, what “0 yeou charge to take a feller tu 

York city 7 
Ile was informed that the fare was one dollar and 
fifty cents, 

‘L sspect vedu inean yedu charge a feller that when 
yveou find him: what ‘ll yeou take a feller for, when he 
fluds himself 2? 

The price of passage without board, le was informed, 
Was seventy-fve cents. 

‘Then [shall have to foot it tu York; yeu see, I’m 
scant out tor funds, and Lo aeest have a leetle somethin’ 
Jett to feed ine wter I get there; can “t get along without 
victuals.’ 

‘Can “t help it, replied the captain 5 ‘that’s our low- 
est; we ha’ n't but one price. 

‘Nedéw just take wa feller for halfa-dollar, capting ; 
come, nedw 3 if yeot will, LU help du up the chores 
while [’m aboard? 

‘No, Sir, Dean ’t take you for that price,’ 

The ereeu-lorn squirted a long stream of tobrcco-juice 
upon the deck, resumed his time of Yankee-doodle, 
shouldered his hiur-trunk, and walked off— fn about an 
hour he returned, and with a erin addressed the captain : 

*Neow, look oF here, capting, Pm in distress y TP posi 
tinedy haunt vot but tew dollars in the worlit TPoaust eet 


we. ork, or d-shall starve tb cat SLT nothin’ to du here, 


a20 “G Der NS TO Yor Ri 


Neow, du, capting » [ove always hear'n tell that you sailors 
Wits wenerous chaps. 

This appeal to the captain’s professional pride had its 
effect) and he agreed to take the persevering mendicant 
for fifty cents, provided lie would supply Timnself with pro- 


Visions, and render such assistance as he could in managing 


The passage was unusually long, being delayed Dy 
contrary winds nearly a week bevond the ordinary tine 
af starting, On the second day the Yankee ran out of 
provisions t and the captain, as an det of charity, furnished 
him from the vessel's steres. About thirty-six hours be 
fore thei arrival in the exuberance of jis extltation at 
having outwitted the captain, he disclosed to a tellow 
passenger that he had slots o° cash? and he wade quite a 
display of loose change, This soon enme to the ears af’ 
the captain, who was so indignant at the Inposition which 
had been practised upon him, that he was about. setting 
the tricky clistomer ashore, tos foot it to York? the best 
Wal hie could ¢ bit on retleetion, he coueluded that it 
would be a worse punishment to keep him on board, steys 
his rations, and put him to hard work. From this time 
until their arrival. the Yankee’s situation was wo sinecture, 
Farnished with a cloth, and a bueket of sand, he was set 


for SCOUT HY the apehor ¥ Deine iitired to Inher, that diel 


; : vane "E ee. > 1 
HOeToUvis lem Trydte iP , ORD LO WOPrk OTF AN CN YDY Scone 


“GEETING To.Y ore 307 


for Uurty-six hours, and endure the curses of the enraged 
captun, and the taunts and jeers of the passengers and 
crew, and all tor the small mutter of twenty-five cents, he 
thought was * paying rather dear tor the whistle}? Great 
was lis joy, therefore, when they hauled inty the slip at 
New-York ; and before the sloop’s side had touched the 
dock, he jumped ashore. Leaving the little hair-trunk to 
be removed atier he had satisticd his Iuameer, lie hastened 
to the Nearest place Where food could be procured, This 
lreppetecd to bea huckster’s stand AL, the hen of the slip; 
where, among other eatables, were displayed some fine- 
looking boiled lobsters. Qur verdant genius had often 
heard lobsters spoken of as excellent food, although le 
had never tasted any y this seemed a good opportunity to 
sitisty [iis hunger, and at the same time to enjoy a rare 
luxury: so after bargaining awhile, and beatiug the old 
woman down in her price some three or four cents, he 
botwelit three dobsters and us Meany Boston ‘crackers, 
with which he returned to the sloop. 

Meanwhile oue of the passengers, a wag of the: first 
order, having been up into the city. returned on board 
and noticed the Yankee, at the heel of the bowsprit, 
seated oon dis haimtrunk. vad Seon’ inte? his bareain 
tooth rael nel lt wise ereedy spectacle | Tle wrenehlied 


the puws and ehuws of the lobsters apart with mnmecessary 


strcnenli, drawing out with voracity sherp splinters of the 


B2S Gain “te oo ear: 


meat, and biting them off close down to the sockets whicl 
lield them. Such a smacking and cracking was neves 
heard before. Carelessly sauntering within hearing, the 
Waveish passenger gave the captiin a wink, aud re- 
marked : 

‘This is a horrible business, eaptain 1? 

» § What is a horrible business 27 asked the skipper. 

‘Hain’ t vou heard the news?) All the papers are full 
of it, Some Jersey fishing-smacks have been taking lob- 
sters on the copperas-banks off Barnegat, and dave sold 
them all over the city. Every person who has eaten any 
of them is pisoned.  Fitty-three have died since moruing 
there Is a tremendous excitement about it. As Lt crime 
down, T saw an officer arrest: the old woman who keeps a 
stand at the head of the slip, for selling some of the same 
lobsters, 

The Yankee, who had already devoured one aud part 
of another, paused at the narration, as if suddenly para- 
Ivzed; then dropping the fragment which he held, with 
the untouched prize, into the water, his mouth tilled with 
eracker-and-lobster, his) enormous palms extended over 
his abdomen, his face pallid with terror, he exclaimed : 

Oh, wolly P owhat shall l du! What hall 2 che 2 ea 
saringly a dead man! Darn York! Cuss the lobsters! 


L wish Td staid tu hum! -Oh,. my hetiawels ? fy 


ae 


oN dy 
beowels : 


PG pupae aie, See oes OB eee 329 


‘Tf that d-~d vreeu-horn has n't been eating some of 
em }—run for a doctor!” exclaimed the captain, Some 
one started ashore for a physician. In the mean time the 
Yankee continued to groan and lament, attracting a large 
crowd of spectators by his eres: ‘Oh, Sune! if T had 
only taken your advice, and kept clear of this tarnal York 
city! I’m dying—I know [ am! My mouth tastes 


oS 


jest like a rusty cent! The doctor “Il charge an all-fired 


price to cure me, [s'spect. There, I"m spitting green !— 


; 
that “s the copperas! IT shall die before the doctor gets 
here! Murder! murder! murder!’ 

Some one personating a physician now made his ap- 
pearance, felt of the patient’s pulse, examined his tongue, 
and pronounced it a clear case of poisoning from eating 


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copperas lobsters. Ile preseribed a powerful emetic, 
Which was immediately adininistered in the form of a 
quart of luke-warm salt water, The effect was powerful 
beveud explanation. It produced a prodigious parexysin, 
aud kept him in a continual shudder for more than an 
hour, during which his case seemed to be very doubttul. 
He kept girding his stomach with his two hands, squeeze 
liis viscera, and bowing down as the contending forces 
racked dis whole inner man. Tn the pauses of lus pangs 
hee uttered sundry exclamations, such as, ‘Oh. Sune! 


aint where cies Lore cite: Oh nv beowelst die] 


ever get hinm again youll never catch There it is 


gol) Geer Tine rg Y of (a 


aevain! Lshel? die! Parson Dutiaine? Parson Deri 
tee} if Thad mt neglected your ee ete to the 
reat edifleation and amusement of the bystanders. Mt 
leneth the deetor pronounced him tree trom: danger ana 
convalescent. The next thing was the payment of the 
fee, which le was informed was five dollars. He groaned 
in spirit, and his *bedwels* yearned worse than ever cu 
the thought of parting with such a sum of money. There 
was no help for it, howevers so he ‘torked over” the ¥, 


and shoulderiny his hair-trunk, went vrowling on his way. 


We have often heard of persous talking with sngrs 
veliemence to inanimate ebjects which displeased ther: 
and we have even heard of these same oljeets being * prt 
upon their good behavior? as in the case of the sailor wis 


| 


reminded his staunch eratt, when she was sailing beats 


fuily before the wind, that if she would belave edi 
well during the vovage, she should liave a handsome cost 
of paint the very day after she arrived at ler destined 
port, One of the best things in this kind, however, which 
Fy PESTY DS bay haga boar ae talc m he + Th anys ‘ Ts yi 
Wwe remember TO Have heard, was Ola Ss (he OONer aay tay 
afriend, whom no ‘good thing’ ever esenpes. A vessel 
in the Mediterranean, loaded to the eunwale with a rich 


cargo of files, was wrecked in a tremendous stern: the 


cuptain and mate being saved by a miracle. The next 


ys ere Bogie ican Col ein ten vay saad Rai Tp ay ae Nos Ye pl eal 


GAY, by one of its sudden changes, the blue ocemm was as 
smooth as glass: searecly a cat’s-paw of wind could be 
traced, as faras the eye could reach. The captain of the 
wrecked vessel, however, walking along the coast ear 
Lisbon, surveyed the scene with a jaundiced eve. Oh! 
ia said he, ‘mizhty still WOW sineoth enouch lo-duy ; 
but [see through you; Z know what you want — you 
want more figs! You do wt catch me agen, though, 


mind T tell you? 


‘The Changeless Philosopher? is not bad; nay, it is 
very good —but uot quite original, Gorpsairi has a 
character so much like the * philosopher” that we hardly 
think foth can be original creations, Part of our * peri- 
patetic? hero's reasoning seems also to have been borrowed 
from the bankrupt ‘Wyior Owres? arenment in extenu- 
ation of stealing a conveyance in town, and making an 
mroad upon the larders and bars of sundry suburban 
houses of entertainment, ‘without regard to expense 2? *T 
doart know whether things are not funnier when you ‘ve 
got no money at all, than when your pockets are brimful. 
Take all you can, and no responsibility ; no forking down 
or seithne up 3 a tree blow, every-which-way. Get kieked 
a lithe sometimes; but that mends itself cheap; and 
when you ’ve had a ride and trimmings, Whisky-punch 


> 


Sere ACS PAW He ER wee 1) Caper 8 eee 


and fried oysters, a dance, an upset, and a fight with 
chairs and decanters, why what can they do with you 
then, if you are independent in vour circumstances, and 
have. n't got a redcent? They cant unre a fellows 
no, nor undanee him neither. When you “ve jad) some- 
thing to drink, you ’re a fixed fact, and can “t be un- 


punched 1? 


We were not a little amused the other evening at 
Nipio’s, by a dialogue which we overheard between a 
verdant-looking biped and a colored * gemmian’ olliciating 
as water, Taking up a littl bill from one of the small 
tables, the white youth ran over the items, as * Vanilla 
cream, ‘Strawberry, do.’ ‘Raspberry, do.” ete, At length, 
‘Bring me, said he to the waiter, ‘some o* vour * Sfraw- 
berry Dol Wis. Seelored person? looked at) the dish 
indicated Dy the finger of his interlocutor: ‘On. he ex- 
plained, ‘that means deffo 3 it means that it’s the same 
thine, vou see’ Verv well, then, bring ime a Straw- 
berry Dito; you've got it, hant yet There’s a aim 
there ’s jest seut aud had one feted. Jest brine ae one 
on7’em!? At that moment we heard the tones of Mrs. 
Mowasare’s most qiusical voice: the curtain was apt ie 
we left the intelligent imquisitor thrustine into his very 


throat large heaps of + Strawberry Ditto! 


Dien RN Ge Aan! Ae tants RGus ei a fbek Ss ao 


Mr. Fowren, * practical phrenologist, has issued an 
elaborate work on his * science? Tt contains the engraved 
busts of a geod many men remarkable for tueir bumps. 


ey 


We once ‘lay? tor our plaster-portrait to Mr. Fow rer, and 

kept a very sober face in our coffin-like box until he had 

piled the Hand matériel around our smoothly-greased 

head and face, to within a half an inch of the mouth; 

but when he began to feed the adjacent features with a 
i 


spoon, and we saw only a nose sticking out of the warm 


pe) 


s 


white hasty-pudding, ‘luman-natar’* could n't stand its 
and just as far as those features cou/d laugh they did ; the 
museles below however were ‘stuck ;’ and the result in 
the cast was a face soleinn as an owl's up to the outer line 
of a small circle embracing the mouth aud muscles imme- 
diately adjacent, which were themselves ‘full of mirth’ 
*Pieture it, think of it? reader! And vet Mr Fowrer 
hal the audacity to exlnbit that bust in his window (Ps- 
ver Rosinson the murderer on one side aud our friend 
Colouel Webs on the other!) until we extracted a promise 
from him to remove it and break the mould which had 


been worse than an ‘iron mask? to us. 


Over Tinneeum friend and correspondent saw an adroit 


trick ‘done and performed? the other day in the viemity 


S04) "Pare: SEs woh waren Seay Bei ae ae 


of Washineton-market. A) fellow loaned a countryish- 
locking man a gold watelr for ten dolls, with the privie 
jege of redeeming it in two days, for a dollar prenimuns. 
“It was worth sixty)? ‘belonged to his tutherl ete.: but 
then he west have the ten dollars, We took it frome bis 
pocket, wrapped a paper round it, gave it to the country- 
man, and got his ten dollars. * Talloo! stranger 2* said 
an accomplice over the way, after the fellow lad wore off 
with the money, ‘what ‘Il you ber that aint a stone vou 
have just bought 7? *T Tl bet vou tew dollars “t art. 
Did n’t Tsee him wrap it up? ‘TCH stand youl? said 
the accomplice + ‘money down! The money was deprosi- 
ted in the hands of a by-stander, the package was wi 
rolled, and a flat roanded stone was all its contents! The 
countryman stud about the market for several days — but 


he has gone home now ! 


Tinsr was an affecting conclusion of a speech Ty a 
venerable Methodist clersyiiri at one of our hate relieiors 


anniversaries, Tle had been depicting the sutlerings of 


his vouth and manhood in proclaiming the *elad tidings? 
of Crnisr in the westeru wilds: often riding im storm and 
tempest through the forest, when it was so dark thet he 


could mot see the beast ou which he rode, and treqhently 


sleepine in the dense woods: his own lands meun time 


iinet Lagoa Silos Ne Caen Waa yea 


(we) 
[ee) 
ex 


ministering unto his necessities. Tle was a poor waytar- 
inzaman, he seid, with mo cottake in the wilderness, but 


watering like the Israchte, and lodging awhile in tents, 
ull tie should reach the heavenly Canaan, The fervor 
with which the following lines were given from the lips of 


the speaker brought tears to many an eves 


SNovrHING on earth Teall MY OW? 
A stranger to the world unknown, 
Tall their coods despise: 
I tremple on their whole delight, 
Tseek a city out of sight, 


AU city ire the Skies, 


‘There is my home and portion fair, 
My treasure and my heart is there, 
And iy abiding home 3 
For me my elder brethren stay, 
And angels beekon me awa, 


And Jusvs bids me come,’ 


A Ward at Parting. 

Wer must now ‘speed the parting Guest.” Tle has sat at oa 
“Table” and partaken of the numerous dishes which we had 
prepared, as well us of several which had been sent iu by trtendds 
neighbors, that it might be decided whether or mo they wouhl 
please the palate of that many-headed monster, ‘Pin Puri 
If our guests should not deem the present fare too simple anid 
homely, it may be that we shall again invite them to sit at our 
board, and partake of aorepast, in which by-vone errors in 
choice of dishes, or modes of cookery, may be avotded, 

Good-bye, Pitesps!—iand may peace amd aappiness he with 


vou! 


fg of this oldest Magazine in Americar commenced on the 
he poieies oe bee: nm 80 long pete ro the public, that it is not- 
i aims to general favor, | 7 


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FR, 
Me Ws SHELTON, 


CUTLER, 


CSIMAN, 


‘Tous 

OBERT Soutney, Rey. ‘Dotiiies, uri int, ) 
a ates ER, Ronert C, Sanps, C 
Tae Ung 3 Bess oe ‘ny io ine Prris,’ 


ER. ie . 
vb Paria iv Hosp. 


is” quite tha able e3 


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tributors, from the commencement of 
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popular authors that the country has pro 
duced. But that feature which has alwrys 
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pying the lust pages of thew ork, We alwuy- 
open to it firs and where ver in its geri, 
cheerful, ninded ‘Gossip! the @ 


falls, thence it is led forw: urd by irresi<t!) 
attraction from ftepie to topic, till tie end 
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ite. It is at once the ablest and best Maer 


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odieal as is our OW Ksici It is refreshins 
to wander over its fatiltiess pages /—ALBANG 
Daity Recisren. 

‘THs glo: rious Argosy from prose and verse 
land, full freighter, Inscious and sniey, is just 
anc Nore daftour ae 
poi ies aml dry aS iquas 


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